Stream: implementers
Topic: HL7 V2 test server / data generator
Armin Linder (Dec 16 2021 at 10:54):
Hi to all from a FHIR newbie from Germany.
I have already asked in the community forum, but got no helpful answer.
I am new to programming in medical environments, and I found the HAPI-FHIR testserver (available via Docker) a valuable aid for first steps, since it provides an easy way to test clients code against a simple test data source. Now I am searching something like HAPI-FHIR for the older HL7 V2 protocol. Does anyone know a way how to get such a test server? A Docker image doesn't seem to exist, but a URL of a live server or a test version of any server product would do as well. Thanks!
Michele Mottini (Dec 16 2021 at 15:11):
I very much doubt that such a thing exist. HL7 V2 processing is typically part of some more complex (commercial) system (you cannot meaningfully 'store' HL7 V2)
Vassil Peytchev (Dec 16 2021 at 15:18):
HAPI has a V2 component (not related to FHIR)
https://github.com/hapifhir/hapi-hl7v2
Paul Church (Dec 16 2021 at 16:15):
You could take a look at the Google Cloud Healthcare API's HL7v2 store for storage and parsing of messages, and the Simulated Hospital framework to do synthetic message generation: https://github.com/google/simhospital
René Spronk (Dec 17 2021 at 15:57):
IHE has some cloud based v2 simulators, but they're all specific to a particular step in a IHE workflow. There are some translation tools that use a v2-store as an intermediate (caching) store, but that's a by product of wishing to do translations.
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