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Must you really deal with the intricacies of HL7 to do this, then, or do you simply pull a few fields from the MSH and then go grepping away for ^IN1\|(somethin
by sk5t 11y ago
Must you really deal with the intricacies of HL7 to do this, then, or do you simply pull a few fields from the MSH and then go grepping away for ^IN1\|(something-interesting)?
In my limited experience various parties use HL7 messages and structures in strange ways for whatever the heck they feel like, within the loose bounds of reasonableness.
- snuxoll 11y agoWe use a proper HL7 parser built into our interface engine (Mirth Connect), extract the data we use and dump it into PostgreSQL. Regular expressions would be an adequate tool for parsing HL7 if you wanted to roll your own, but it made little sense to do everything from scratch.