Iguana is an HL7 integration engine that allows for communication between database tables and HL7 messages. Iguana runs as a standalone service in Windows, or daemon in Unix-based operating systems, and can be easily used to perform the following functions:

• Parse HL7 messages directly into a database;
• Generate HL7 messages directly from a database;
• Route and filter HL7 messages to multiple target systems;
• Transform HL7 data into another flavor of HL7; and
• Translate HL7 data to/from XML.

Iguana Can Communicate with Various Types of Systems

Moreover, Iguana (unlike Chameleon) requires no custom programming, offers Web-based monitoring and administration, as well as extensive logging capability. It also runs on most platforms and supports all of the major databases, such as Oracle, MS SQL Server and MySQL.

By leveraging iNTERFACEWARE's industry-standard Chameleon HL7 messaging engine to handle all message parsing and generation details, Iguana is able to guarantee reliable and highly efficient performance.