In this tutorial, you will be designing an application that generates HL7 messages.

Rather than simply reading through this tutorial, it is recommended that you download a trial version of Chameleon and follow the steps of this tutorial from start to finish. The tutorial should take approximately 30 minutes to complete.

Note that another tutorial, HL7 to Application, discusses the design of an application that parses incoming HL7 messages. Much of what is discussed will be relevant to both kinds of applications.