Use of XML in HL7

In hospitals, the ability to send and receive healthcare data including patient information and the various lab reports are required . The information is stored in non standard formats. The information must be converted from one format to another for the transmission .In order to achieve this ,all healthcare information must be sent in a specialized health care language. In healthcare, important or mean-ingful data can beeasily identified by XML markup or tags and stored as electronic documents. The XML is useful because of its variable length of the nested structures.XML is well-formed document format, it can be easy to be parsed and managed.