Introduction
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Creating HL7 interfaces in Iguana follows a simple repeatable pattern:
- Parse the incoming HL7 messages into a read-only data structure
- Create a writable outgoing message structure
- Translate/map your messages into the outgoing message
- Filter out any unwanted messages
- Deal with unknown message types
The following pages in this article give a brief description of these stages. We also discuss what to expect in a VMD file structure.
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