Introducing Funke: Native HL7v2 Parsing on Databricks
Summary
Funke is an open-source Python and PySpark library that parses HL7v2 electronic health record messages directly into native Spark types on the Databricks Lakehouse while preserving their complete message hierarchy. Rebuilt around Unity Catalog, Declarative Automation Bundles, and Spark Declarative Pipelines as the successor to Smolder, it includes a runnable demo to help you stand up an end-to-end HL7 ingestion pipeline in minutes.
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