Iguana and Chameleon are normally used to transmit and convert HL7 messages. However, you can use Iguana and Chameleon to transmit virtually any kind of health-care message that is written in human-readable text format.

The following tutorial shows how you can use Iguana and Chameleon to transmit a message that is sent in an unknown format. In this tutorial, messages are read from a file, and data from these messages is stored in a database table.