Tooling Work Group

HL7 Tooling Work Group.

The mission of the Tooling Work Group is to oversee the tools that facilitate the development, adoption and use of HL7 standards, according to the requirements of the HL7 Board and membership needs.

For details, see

• HL7 Tooling Webpage has the Tooling Work Group Mission and Charter and list of Co-chairs
• Agendas for Teleconferences that are held every Thursday at 10:00 AM ET
• Working Agenda for the next WGM
• HL7 List Services Welcome Center is the HL7 list server where you can subscribe to any of the Tooling lists
• Tooling Work Group Minutes are on HL7.org

Related links:

• The HL7 Project Homebase on GForge is a project tracking site which allows management of HL7 tools including bug tracking, feature requests and publication of releases.
• Open Health Tools is a related tooling initiative in which HL7 actively participates

Tooling Topics

• Tooling Tactical Steps (Evolving Document)
• Tactical Action Items
• Tools List discussion
• HL7 Project Homebase reorg
• Update the Tooling Work Group wiki page
• Model Interchange Format (MIF)
• Subversion FAQs

Active Tooling Projects

• OHT - NHS sponsored Static Model Designer
• OHT - HL7 UML Modeling Tools
• HL7 - Tooling & Electronic Services alignment
• HL7 - CDA Template requirements package File:NLM - CDA Template tools requirements.zip
• Project to migrate "Domain" Publishing to MIF2 foundation

Tooling Documentation

• Installing and Configuring HL7 Tools
• HL7 Tooling FAQs
• The HL7 Tools index provides a somewhat-dated summary of HL7-supported tools, and links to the location to download the most recent versions.
• Source Code for most HL7 Tools is at The HL7 Subversion Site
• RMIM_Designer_(Visio)_Documentation
• Support page for Vocabulary Submission Tools
• Creating and Using a Document Tab Control on HL7 Wiki
• Historical info re the HL7 Tooling Collaborative - now superseded by Open Health Tools
  • HTC Tools Roadmap
  • Eclipse Tools Installation Instructions (for tools users)
  • Requirements for the MIF, Repository and Processes HTC Requirements