Chameleon: HL7 Messaging Toolkit
Key Features of the HL7 Toolkit
Cross Platform
- Chameleon runs natively on most Microsoft Windows operating systems and Mac OS X via Parallels Desktop or equivalent. Applications built with Chameleon can be deployed on Linux, Solaris, HPUX (32-bit RISC), Mac OS X, as well as Windows.
Multi Language
- In addition to being cross-platform, Chameleon is the only product on the market that supports native interfaces into every major programming language: Java, C++, C#, Visual Basic, Delphi, .NET, and more.
HL7 Mapping Made Easy
- Mapping is at the core of what the Chameleon HL7 toolkit does. It moves data between the HL7 world and your application's world. Chameleon's user interface makes this mapping as easy as dragging and dropping. Straight-forward methods are also provided for users who might wish to manipulate the data during the HL7 mapping process.
HL7 XML Conversion Enabled
- In addition to interfacing HL7 messages directly with an application (using the application's native coding language), iNTERFACEWARE Chameleon also has the ability to convert HL7 messages to and from XML.
Highly Configurable for Custom HL7 Formats
- Naturally, Chameleon can work with the HL7 standards directly out of the box. However, Chameleon also provides for intuitive handling of custom HL7 message formats, since most real-world applications do not strictly adhere to these standards.
Multiple Configurations for Different Interfaces
- Whether your interfaces utilize custom HL7 formats, or simply varying flavors of HL7, Chameleon makes it easy to support multiple variations of HL7 within a single configuration file.
Fast
- As the core HL7 message parser in many of the nation's largest healthcare organizations, iNTERFACEWARE Chameleon's ability to handle in excess of three million HL7 messages in an hour has yet to be challenged.
TCP/IP Networking
- iNTERFACEWARE Chameleon also comes with a fully functional TCP/IP communication infrastructure that implements HL7's standard Lower Layer Protocol (LLP) to allow your application to effortlessly send and receive HL7 messages.