Introduction to HL7

The following topics are covered in this course:

• Introduction to the HL7 Messaging Standard
• HL7 v2 Messaging Overview
• Chapter Overview (v2.4)
• HL7 Control (Chapter 2)
• Trigger Events
• General Message Overview
• Message Acknowledgement
• Communications
• Sample Messages
• Messages
• Encoding Characters/Message Delimiters
• Message Construction (Encoding) Rules
• Z Message Types, Z Trigger Events And Z Segments
• Segment Optionality and Repetition
• Data Types
• Escape Sequences
• HL7 Tables and User Defined Tables
• Acknowledgement Messages
• Sequence numbering
• Continuing messages and segments
• HL7 Batch protocol
• Message Control Segments