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by specialist 3071 days ago
I designed, implemented, supported 5 RHIXs and was party to two NHIN interop competitions.

I strongly prefer HL7 2.x, that nasty EDI mutant spawn you show, over HL7 v3 XML XSD SOAP WSDL FHIR CDA what-what insanity every time.

The trick is abandon any thoughts of "schema", "semantics", "meaning" and just treat all these ETL-esque tasks as screen scrapping.

Meanwhile, XML is always the wrong answer. Full stop.