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    <description><![CDATA[Whether you are an experienced HL7 veteran or new to all of this, the challenges never stop coming. Feel free to post your questions here.]]></description>
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        <title>New topic: &#8220;Help with HL7 v2.7 - MSH-18 (character set)&#8221; by sdrolia</title>
        <link>http://www.hl7connection.com/forum/hl7-help/topic-10/?recent=31</link>
        <description><![CDATA[I would really appreciate if someone could help me with the following questions:

- HL7 v2.6 specification mentions that one can specify a different character set in MSH-18 field for the whole message. Say I want to use GB 18080-2000 character set (Chinese) for my HL7 messages. Based on this, is it safe to assume that by default all fields in MSH-0 to MSH-17 will be in ASCII encoded? If not, then it becomes a chicken and egg problem. If the full message is encoded using GB 18080-2000, then I don\'t know this information till field 18 in MSH. And I cannot parse field 18 properly because I don\'t know the encoding type before that. How I do overcome this problem?

Some direction would be helpful. Thanks!]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 09:48:22 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title>New topic: &#8220;HL7 and Medicare Part D&#8221; by Matthew</title>
        <link>http://www.hl7connection.com/forum/hl7-help/topic-9/?recent=29</link>
        <description><![CDATA[How are people handling Prescription Drug benefits in Medicare Part D in HL7 2.x? It can be handled as a normal insurer, but if there is some direction on this, I would rather follow the standard.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:51:32 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title>Reply to &#8220;HL v2.3 - Include PRD segment with ORU^R01?&#8221; by Matthew</title>
        <link>http://www.hl7connection.com/forum/hl7-help/topic-8/?recent=28</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The spec says that the PRD segment is to be used exclusively with referral messages. It may become invalid but I'm not sure there is a way around it. Congratulations on getting deep into HL7- ORU^R01 messages, wow! Anyone else have any experience here?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2007 13:25:44 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title>New topic: &#8220;HL v2.3 - Include PRD segment with ORU^R01?&#8221; by ccsdev</title>
        <link>http://www.hl7connection.com/forum/hl7-help/topic-8/?recent=28</link>
        <description><![CDATA[HL7 v2.3 Standard
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If I include PRD segment with ORU^R01 message, will it be compliant with the HL7 standard?

Details:

Need to send transcription text as part of ORU R01 messages to the referring physicians. I need to have referring physician\'s contact info. like name, phone, fax etc. as part of the message. 

If I include the PRD segment as part of ORM R01 message will it be a non-standard HL7 message?

Thanks in advance!

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Reference:
11.5.3 PRD - provider data segment
http://www.hl7.org.za/patient/ch110028.htm#I7]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 15:38:55 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title>Reply to &#8220;Physician Telephone Number&#8221; by admin</title>
        <link>http://www.hl7connection.com/forum/hl7-help/topic-7/?recent=26</link>
        <description><![CDATA[It is? I know the provider is available for lab results and things of that nature, but we are using all the available physicians (referring, attending, consulting, primary, etc.) and there only seems to be room for the one telephone number. I\'ll look into the PRD section in the morning.

We are attempting to do some customization of the output of the Meditech admissions module and would rather send over as little as possible on z-segments, for obvious reasons. Thank for your help. I\'ll post a follow up tomorrow.

- Matthew]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 20:35:10 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title>Reply to &#8220;Physician Telephone Number&#8221; by admin</title>
        <link>http://www.hl7connection.com/forum/hl7-help/topic-7/?recent=26</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The provider (Doctor in your case) telephone is carried in the PRD 5.1 segment.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 20:34:34 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title>New topic: &#8220;Physician Telephone Number&#8221; by admin</title>
        <link>http://www.hl7connection.com/forum/hl7-help/topic-7/?recent=26</link>
        <description><![CDATA[How are you guys sending doctor\'s telephone numbers in v2.5? There are no segments for this. Is it a common practice to just create a z-segment for this? It seems like this would be a standard bit of information that would be included by default.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 20:34:15 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title>Reply to &#8220;Potential Topics&#8221; by Matthew</title>
        <link>http://www.hl7connection.com/forum/hl7-help/topic-5/?recent=22</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Thanks for being the first to post, Cecil. I hope this forum helps generate a global dialog between HL7 professionals. I\'m considered an \"expert\" at my company, but it\'s hard to be an expert without collaboration with your peers. I was feeling a little isolated and out of touch since HL7 knowledge is so niche. I hope this fills a need.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 20:20:51 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title>Reply to &#8220;Potential Topics&#8221; by Cecil</title>
        <link>http://www.hl7connection.com/forum/hl7-help/topic-5/?recent=22</link>
        <description><![CDATA[First reply! Posted 1 minute ago!]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 20:20:24 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title>New topic: &#8220;Potential Topics&#8221; by Matthew</title>
        <link>http://www.hl7connection.com/forum/hl7-help/topic-5/?recent=22</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What do you all think would be a few, good high level categories for the forums? I think help/support is an important one. Any other ideas?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 20:19:44 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title>Reply to &#8220;HL7 and BizTalk&#8221; by Matthew</title>
        <link>http://www.hl7connection.com/forum/hl7-help/topic-4/?recent=19</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Matt, My experience with Biztalk was that it is too slow. The number of messages it can process per second is very low. A very rough estimate is 8 to 13 messages per second is what it can process. Again this is an estimate but based on validation rules and schema your 11 msg/sec may go down further. In our case we roughly found out about 2 msg/sec. So make sure you ask Microsoft this question before you go too much deep into this product.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 20:19:10 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title>New topic: &#8220;HL7 and BizTalk&#8221; by Matthew</title>
        <link>http://www.hl7connection.com/forum/hl7-help/topic-4/?recent=19</link>
        <description><![CDATA[I\'m looking at BizTalk as a potential candidate for our HL7 messaging service. I\'ve read about the Accelerator for HL7 and I\'m curious about any experience you\'ve had with this. Did this adapter help; did it speed up implementation? I\'ve found a few case studies on the Microsoft website but of course they are considerably biased. If anyone could point me in the right direction to any independent, third-party research or provide your own experience, I would be grateful.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 20:11:29 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title>Reply to &#8220;Version 3?&#8221; by Matthew</title>
        <link>http://www.hl7connection.com/forum/hl7-help/topic-3/?recent=17</link>
        <description><![CDATA[It appears to be an entire platform - much more than just a parser. It was easy to install but I didn\'t really do much with it after I learned we could not use java based software. If we were to go for an open source solution this appears to be by far the best. Here is a link to their website: http://www.mirthproject.org/]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 20:10:41 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title>Reply to &#8220;Version 3?&#8221; by leaf999</title>
        <link>http://www.hl7connection.com/forum/hl7-help/topic-3/?recent=17</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Hello Matt, Can you tell us more about Mirth, is it just a parser or it more of an integration engine and does handle routing and logging.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 20:10:22 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title>Reply to &#8220;Version 3?&#8221; by Matthew</title>
        <link>http://www.hl7connection.com/forum/hl7-help/topic-3/?recent=17</link>
        <description><![CDATA[I went through a vendor analysis last year to compare the costs and features of several tool on the market (commercial and open source). I was impressed with Mirth. My current client is not keen on anything java, but I have it installed on my machine at home and I really like it.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 20:09:47 -0700</pubDate>
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