The connector for the Healthcare datahandlers, Healthcare Level Seven (HL7) and National Council for Drug Control programs (NCPDP) message standard, is a runtime component of the WebSphere Business Integration Adapter for Healthcare Data Protocols. Both HL7 and NCPDP message standards refer to other well-defined standards, such as various ISO and ANSI standards. The connector allows the WebSphere integration broker to exchange business objects with healthcare-enabled business processes.
Connectors consist of an application-specific component and the connector framework. The application-specific component contains code tailored to a particular application. The connector framework, whose code is common to all connectors, acts as an intermediary between the integration broker and the application-specific component. The connector framework provides the following services between the integration broker and the application-specific component:
This document contains information about the application-specific component and connector framework. It refers to both of these components as the connector.
For more information about the relationship of the integration broker to the connector, see the IBM WebSphere InterChange Server System Administration Guide, or the IBM WebSphere Business Integration Adapters Implementation Guide for WebSphere MQ Integrator Broker.
All WebSphere business integration adapters operate with an integration broker. The connector for the healthcare data protocol operates with both the WebSphere InterChange Server (ICS) and WebSphere MQ Integrator Broker integration brokers.
The connector for the healthcare data protocol allows the IBM InterChange Server or IBM WebSphere MQ Integrator Broker to exchange business objects with applications that send or receive data in the form of HL7/NCPDP messages.