We are pleased to announce the release of our open source HL7 Python library: hl7apy.
HL7 is the most important international standard for interoperability in the field of healthcare informatics, that is one of the main focus areas of the Healthcare Flows Group at CRS4. "hl7apy" is a lightweight library, fully compliant with HL7 consortium specifications, to enable fast development of HL7 applications that support creation, parsing and validation of HL7 v2.x messages. We developed a new library since we needed to rapidly create HL7 compliant applications and prototypes using the Python language, and the open source libraries we found were missing essential features like message validation. "hl7apy" is an indipendent project, not affiliated with HL7 International. You can find further information on the project website: http://hl7apy.org