HL7 message validation tools
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Message Workbench
The Message Workbench tool can handle several tasks around HL7 message conformance. Presumably among these is the ability to validate a message against a particular conformance profile.
NIST Message Validator
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has deployed a message validation tool for use in all of healthcare data exchange, not just for public health. The tool is here, but I could not get it to accept an HL7 2.5.1 ORU_R01 message at all, much less validate. It seems to be expecting XML.
MQF Validation tool
The PHIN Message Quality Framework has a tool for message validation here. The current use cases are PHIN Case Notification and PHILIP messaging. Presumably the tool could be expanded to handle the ELR HL7 2.5.1 ORU^R01 message to public health.
MSS Validation tool and services
This tool is based on prior work by the PHIN Message Subscription Service team. They work with state-level public health jurisdictions to create and deploy software that leverages the Rhapsody message broker engine from Orion Health for public health message exchange. One of the best developed sets of software is for Electronic Laboratory Reporting.
The people on this project are in the process of creating web and web service front ends to an instance of their software. An early version of it is available here: _______________________.
