HL7 Chameleon

Purpose

HL7 Chameleon is an software development toolkit.  It is intended
for use by software developers in the Health industry dealing with
the ANSI standard Health Level Seven protocol.

HL7 Chameleon helps to overcome a major problem with HL7 - namely that
no two implementations are ever alike.  It does this by allowing the
user to define their own interface which is mapped at runtime - using
a simple drag and drop interface, to the specific HL7 format.

The application generates stub code in the language that the developer
is using, allowing for compile time checking of the interface.  The HL7
format is edited using a very intuitive GUI front end.

The product includes an extensive interactive Help tutorial which takes
a novice HL7 developer through a step by step process to create a working
HL7 client-server system.

Installation

The setup.exe included in the distribution is a self installing executable.

It does the following:

(A) Installs and registers the Atl.dll in your windows system directory
(B) It copies the application executable, VMlibrarySR.dll etc. to the
    application directory you specify - typically 
    "C:\Program Files\HL7 Chameleon". 
(C) It registers the COM library contained in the VMlibrarySR.dll. 
(D) It adds the application directory the PATH variable.  This is so that user
i   application which need to load the Chameleon DLL (like C++ ones) can 
    load the VMlibrarySR.dll.
(E) It adds the files Chameleon.hlp, Chameleon.cnt, CHMhelp.dll to your
    windows\help directory
(F) It adds an icon to the "Start" menu. 
(G) It adds registry settings under
    "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Interfaceware\Chameleon" that specifiy user
    customisations. 
(H) It registers the ".vmd" file extension by adding keys to
    "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.vmd" and "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\HL7Chameleon.Document" 
(I) It adds registry keys under
   "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\HL7
    Chameleon" which display the HL7 Chameleon entry under the Add/Remove
    applications dialog. 

Status of software:  

This distribution is not licensed for commercial use - it
can only be used for private research or evaluation.

Distribution status:

Freely distributable - but not saleable.

Contact Details

See iNTERFACEWARE website at:
http://www.interfaceware.com
or phone +64 21 333 068
or email support@interfaceware.com

