Tool-assisted Healthcare Knowledge to HL7 Message Translation

In the new network-centric healthcare IT environment, standardization of information representation, organization and dissemination is the first step towards achieving semantic interoperability among heterogeneous systems. In this paper, we discuss roadblocks encountered in a real-world project to integrate two disparate healthcare systems based on HL7 v3 standards. We propose a tool-assisted approach to support standard-compliant message workflow design and lay the foundation for a new tool to support our approach.