In this tutorial, you will:

• Acquire some data to work with;
• Examine a sample HL7 message and create a mapping from the message to the data structures that you define;
• Learn how to generate stubcode that exposes these data structures to your application;
• Create a sample server application to process the incoming HL7 messages;
• Learn how to handle unrecognized messages;
• Use Python scripts to transform incoming messages;
• Learn how to work with messages that contain repeated segments.