Ruby-HL7 0.2.44

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
  • easy associated/child segment access

Changes

This release addresses a few bugs found with segment access,
specifically null segment access and empty segment access.
It also provides a speed improvement when parsing messages with many
unimplemented/unknown segments.
Associated/Child segment access has been implemented.

How do I get it?

gem install ruby-hl7

or grab the tarbal from http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=3261

More info and examples

http://ruby-hl7.rubyforge.org

What else?

Please use the trac instance for bug reports and feature requests. Xml
message support will be added once I’ve released my fastxml library.

–mark