Technical Guides & Resources

Technical reference guides for data engineers, developers, and integration architects.

HL7

What Is HL7 Parsing? A Complete Technical Guide

Everything healthcare integration engineers need to know about HL7 v2 message structure, segment decoding, and pipeline design.

HL7

A comprehensive reference guide to the most important HL7 v2 segments with field-by-field breakdowns and real-world examples.

HL7

Learn how HL7 parsers decode segments, fields, components, and subcomponents for interface troubleshooting and healthcare ETL mapping.

HL7

Review a synthetic ADT A01 admission message and learn how MSH, EVN, PID, NK1, and PV1 work together.

HL7

Inspect a synthetic ORU lab result message and understand OBR order context, OBX result values, units, ranges, and status.

FHIR

Compare FHIR and HL7 v2 on architecture, data models, transport, and migration strategy. Which standard is right for your use case?

C-CDA

When to use C-CDA XML documents versus FHIR resources, and how to convert between the two for modern interoperability systems.

ETL

Architectural patterns for ingesting HL7, C-CDA, and FHIR data into modern data lakes and relational data warehouses.

Streaming

How to build real-time event-driven healthcare integration pipelines using Apache Kafka, FHIR APIs, and stream processing.