Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: Mirth channels and HL7 import for the GNUmed project - test source message

[Karsten Hilbert]

> may I ask you to document the steps that were necessary on
> > our Wiki ?
> >
> 
> Certainly. I'll start on it tonight when I get home.

Great, thanks, take your time !  :-)

> I will probably do the Mirth code analysis on the weekend. I suspect that
> you would also like a recommendation for a solution to HL7 messaging? What
> is a typical scenario for how HL7 messaging is used.
I can not really give good advice on this because here in Germany we don't
use HL7 messaging in community care.

> Is it the following:
> 
> 1) A system(s) sends an HL7 message to the Mirth Server
> 2) The Mirth Server processes the message, decodes it, and stores the data
> within the message in the GNUMed database
> 3) The GNUMed client can then access the data from the database
Correct.

> Once the HL7 message has been decoded and stored in the database, is there
> a need to refer back to the original message?
Not really, except maybe for having the original backed up somewhere.

> I am assuming the HL7 message
> is decoded and is now just data in the database.
Correct.

> Will GNUMed ever be sending HL7 messages to the Mirth Server?
Not in the foreseeable future.

Karsten
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