Development tool for generating optimized HL7 libraries for embedded medical devices.

Embedded medical devices with constraints on the CPU power and memory capacity must communicate with HIS only in a few HL7 messages. Therefore, it is not desirable to deploy one big library that processes all HL7 messages to all types of devices. We present a development tool that automatically generates an optimized library with a small memory footprint that only processes a subset of HL7 messages for each target device type.