From: Luciano Ramalho <ramalho@...>
Date: 2007-03-19T05:12:39+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Ruby-HL7 0.1.23

Since I had no idea what HL7 was, I looked it up and found this:

''Health Level Seven develops specifications, the most widely used
being a messaging standard that enables disparate healthcare
applications to exchange keys sets of clinical and administrative
data.''

http://www.hl7.org/about/hl7about.htm

Cheers,

Luciano

On 3/18/07, Mark Guzman <segfault@hasno.info> wrote:
> I've finally wrapped up some tasks and released Ruby-HL7. This is the
> first public release.
>
> What is it?
> -------------
>
> Ruby-HL7 is a library for parsing and generating HL7 2.x messages. HL7
> 3.0 message
> support is planned for a future release. HL7 is a widely used medical
> information
> interchange format.
>
> Feature list:
>    * flexible parsing support
>    * MLLP support
>    * provides a simple dsl for defining segments
>    * allows for arbitrary manipulation of segment data
>    * automatic segment ordering (via sort)
>    * familiar Array/Enumerable semantics
>
> How do I get it?
> --------------------
>
> gem install ruby-hl7
>
> or grab the tarbal from http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=3261
>
> More info
> ------------
>
> http://hasno.info/2007/3/18/ruby-hl7-0-1-23-released
> http://trac.hasno.info/ruby-hl7
> http://ruby-hl7.rubyforge.org
>
> What else?
> --------------
>
> Please use the trac instance for bug reports and feature requests. I
> will be monitoring the lists when
> I can. March 25-April 3 I will be traveling to Japan and unreachable.
>
>   --mark
>
>