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, Chameleon™'s ability to handle in excess of three million HL7 messages in an hour has yet to be challenged.
TCP/IP Networking
- The Chameleon™ HL7 Toolkit 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.