About This Book

This book is one of a set that describes how to build productions that route and transform documents in Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) formats. This book explains how to route HL7 Version 2 messages from one application to another using an InterSystems product as the routing engine. It contains the following sections:

• Introduction

• HL7 Schemas and Available Tools

• Configuring the Production

• Defining Routing Rule Sets

• Defining DTL Data Transformations

• Defining Search Tables

• Important HL7 Scenarios

• Reference

For a detailed outline, see the table of contents.

The following books provide related information:

• Best Practices for Creating Productions describes best practices for organizing and developing productions.

• Developing Productions explains how to perform the development tasks related to creating a production.

• Configuring Productions describes how to configure productions, business hosts, and settings. It also provides reference information on settings not discussed in this book.

• Using Virtual Documents in Productions describes the concept of virtual documents and provides generic information on working with them.

• HL7 Productivity Tools describes the HL7 Message Analyzer, Production Generator, and HL7 Migration Tool.