Overview

The connector for the Healthcare datahandlers, Healthcare Level Seven (HL7) and National Council for Drug Control programs (NCPDP) message standard, is a runtime component of the WebSphere Business Integration Server Express Adapter for Healthcare Data Protocols. Both HL7 and NCPDP message standards refer to other well-defined standards, such as various ISO and ANSI standards. The connector allows the integration broke, InterChange Server Express, to exchange business objects with healthcare-enabled business processes.

Connectors consist of an application-specific component and the connector framework. The application-specific component contains code tailored to a particular application. The connector framework, whose code is common to all connectors, acts as an intermediary between InterChange Server Express and the application-specific component. The connector framework provides the following services between InterChange Server Express and the application-specific component:

This document contains information about the application-specific component and connector framework. It refers to both of these components as the connector.

For more information about the relationship of the integration broker to the connector, see the System Administration Guide or the System Implementation Guide.

All WebSphere Business Integration Server Express integration adapters operate with the integration broker, InterChange Server Express.

The connector for the healthcare data protocol allows InterChange Server Express to exchange business objects with applications that send or receive data in the form of HL7/NCPDP messages.

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