HL7 Tooling Collaborative

The HL7 Tooling Collaborative (HTC) is a software development initiative dedicated to providing commercial-quality highly integrated tools that support the development and implementation of HL7-compliant healthcare communications.

See the HTC Website for details.

In general, the HL7 Tooling Collaborative envisions building tools that:

• Produce machine-processable artefacts, spanning through all stages of the message design cycle (requirements, design, implementation and testing)
• Support end-to-end automated testing of interoperability solutions
• Standardise the type and quality of the information conveyed between each stage and between communicating organisations
• Produce coherent, traceable and versioned concepts from analysis to implementation
• Facilitate direct involvement / feedback in international standards and tools development, ensuring ongoing alignment of implementation specifications with industry standards, including HL7 V3
• Reduce message development time, allowing the automatic translation of message designs to supplier-specific formats
• Facilitates consistent workflows and project management / oversight
• Provide a framework for publishing documentation about the artefacts generated throughout the process