Chameleon: HL7 Messaging Toolkit

Chameleon - HL7 Message Browser

HL7 Message Browser

What is it?

The HL7 Message Browser is a useful parsing utility included with Chameleon, which provides a user friendly tree browser view of an HL7 message.

What Does it Do?

All HL7 messages are made up of segments, composites and primitive data types. Special characters inside each message such as | and ^ are used as delimiters to separate the various fields within the message. After just a couple messages, you will find it can be quite a tedious process to read an entire HL7 message.

Sample HL7 Message:

Sample HL7 Message


Basic Message Parsing

The HL7 Message Browser is used for parsing HL7 messages so that they become easily readable. You can automatically parse an HL7 message using the message browser with a single click. This transforms the HL7 message into a nicely structured tree browser format, where each data field is labelled according to the official HL7 naming standards.

Not only is the tree labelled, but it is also color coded to highlight required fields.

The message browser also features context highlighting, which makes it easy to locate and diagnose issues with specific fields when parsing messages.

Basic Parsed Message with Context Highlighting


Customized Table View of HL7 Messages

The HL7 Message Browser also features a table view, which enables you to easily visualize and test your message configuration mappings.

Notice the simple and organized format for displaying only the relevant information that has been extracted from the HL7 messages.

Table Grammar View of an HL7 Message


Want to know more?

For detailed information on the HL7 message browser, please refer to our online manual, or download a copy of Chameleon to test it out for free!


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