[Gnumed-devel] HL7 data sample for you.

[Richard Terry]

HL7 is pretty simple if you look at the docs. It is just a matter of 
understanding what the internal fields looked like. Its just tedious and the 
docs are HUGE!!!

 I wrote a HL7 Parser in VB in a couple of hours a few years ago using sample 
data from Douglas Labs + the HL7 Reference, but looking at the patient 
download data is probably quickest as the data subset is small.

I'll get another sample file emailed to me today and post it to the list. I've 
probably trashed my vb code as I have no VB environment anymore but I'll 
check.

On second thoughts, amazing, it is still on my server, so here it is.

Regards

Richard

On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 08:42 am, catmat wrote:
> Ian Haywood wrote:
> >>  > MediNet script pushes the file over
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> >>  >
> >>  > Data formats
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> >>  > The data from *some* labs is coded within HL7 formatted files,
> >
> >                                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > We need samples to understand the dialect of HL7.
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> >>  > permitting such data to be brought into patients' EMR as granular
> >>  > (individual coded test) results. However much of the lab data and
> >>  > reports handled by MediNet are plain text around which Medinet wraps
> >>  > a standard text header to permit vendors to link within their EMRs to
> >
> >        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > We need a description of this format and a few examples.
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> Is it a legal problem to release examples on this list?
> If a developer builds a parser, whoever has some results stored as files
> can test
> the parser, and return the error output, without the developer having to
> view the results.
> Or the person who has the results, can deindentify the test data and
> send it to the developer.
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