As was mentioned in the Disclaimer in the System Requirements this help document is not intended as an in-depth knowledge-base about what HL7 is or how HL7 works and that you have a reasonable working knowledge of this. This section deals with some different strategies you might employ to help make sure that you create valid, robust HL7 messages. The discussion will go over some "remedial" HL7 topics so you may not need this section.

 

"Scrubbing" Your Data

 

 

HL7 Messages are made up of HL7 Segments, which are made of HL7 Fields which are made up of HL7 Components. HL7 is an ASCII format so it makes extensive use of delimiters to separate these elements. Collectively these characters are referred to as the Encoding Characters. BOM and EOM enveloping characters separate HL7 Messages, within messages Segment Delimiters separate the HL7 Segments, within segments Field Delimiters separate the HL7 Fields and within the fields Component Delimiters separate the components. Other delimiters include the Repeat Delimiter which is used within HL7 Fields (since a HL7 Field can contain more than 1 value) and the SubComponent Delimiter which is used within a Component (because a Component can also contain more than 1 value).

 

 

 

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