HL7 Engine written in VB.NET
I’ve written a full-blown HL7 Engine in VB.NET (2008) and have been considering opening it up to the public as open source. However, it’s been a tough decision because 1) I really believe in open source and want to contribute my work, and 2) to be brutally honest, I’d love to eventually get some payback from the countless hours it has taken to write. Sure, call me greedy, or yell at me and tell me to publish it and people will donate. Sorry, but I’ve seen and heard of too many solid developers do the same thing and get few coins here and there – enough to buy a burger or two.
I’d love to hear some input on what others have done. I’d also like to hear if there is any interest in this HL7 engine. Here are some specs:
* Bi-directional multi-threaded communications
* Message Builder with tons of configuration screens
* Message Processor with customizable processor API
* Currently running in a production environment
* Highly efficient at both receiving and processing.
Is there any way you could make a limited version for free use with a full-blown version for sale? Developers might be interested if they could use what you have without having the source for modification and buy it if they want to have the source to tailor it to their applications.
I have developed a hospital management system but I need help on how to interface the laboratory analysers with Microsoft.NET in order to automatically capture and store patient lab results.
@Jim – Interesting concept. Maybe limit the number of transactions and/or number of interfaces. Will consider that.
@paul – If the lab analyzers can provide an outbound HL7 interface (probably an ORU message type) this should work. In your Hosp Mgmt System, do you currently have an HL7 Engine that imports/exports data? If not, this is definitely something that may work for you.
Greetings.
I’m definitely interested in looking at / potentially using the described HL7 engine. I am a developer, and am working on building out HL7 messaging interface to / from a custom communications web portal we built to support a unique medical practice. I’m looking at options for hooking to the labs from the portal app.
I found this post, and any libraries that would cut dev time would help. Contact me, and perhaps we can work something out.
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Hello.
I need to have HL7 formatted messages communicate with document management systems. Any chance your work could be purposed in that direction?
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@John: I sent you an e-mail to follow up.
@Nanette: Thanks for the good words. I’m really heavy into HL7 and will be posting some utilities and libraries to hopefully help others in need.
@Christian: Would love to hear more what you are doing. I think we can certainly come up with something.
@All: I think I’m hearing a lot of needs and the traffic coming this way backs it up. So look for some additional posts and tools in the near future.