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HL7 interfaces are obscenely expensive unfortunately. With some vendors, just the licensing can be $10,000+. On top of that you have the programming expenses. It is ridiculous but anything with a medical tag costs 4x more. Sorry for the bad news.
For example, suppose you plan on a three-year lifecycle. A $20,000 fixed server cost remains the same over three years, but an annual network connectivity cost of $500 would cost $1,500 per server over three years, and a $2,000 annual management database cost for the deployment would cost $6,000 over three years.