Description:

This package provides an HL7 API for creating, sending and
manipulating HL7 messages. HL7 is a protocol on the 7th OSI layer
(hence the '7' in HL7) for messaging in Health Care environments. HL7
means 'Health Level 7'. HL7 is a protocol with a wealth of semantics
that defines hundreds of different messages and their meaning, but
also defines the syntactics of composing and sending messages. The API
is focused on the syntactic level of HL7, so as to remain as flexible
as possible. The package is a translation of the Perl HL7 Toolkit and
will be kept in sync with this initiative.