newbie with a question

[jasonslan]

Hi,

I'm new to HL7, but I have a radiology imaging center that is sending me radiology reports (HL7 ORU messages) but of course I have nothing to read them with.

Is there a way to receive the message and have it saved as a human readable PDF or any other type of document?

Thanks in advance.

--Jason

[Antaris]

Re:newbie with a question

Hi jasonslan,

You just have to configure this (using Mirth 1.8.0 ...) :
- Summary tab : Incoming data HL7 v2.* of course
- Source tab : configure an LLP Listener IP/Port etc (or a file reader if you want for example reading *.hl7 files ...)
- Destination 1 :
* Connector type : File Writer
* Method : file (for local filesystem)
* File Name : for example the current date : ${DATE}
* Append to file : Yes if you wanted to create daily logs
* Template : ${message.rawData} (to keep and store the original message content)

Deploy all !
Send a message to your channel to test it ...

And voilà ! :woohoo:
(comme vous dites chez vous en anglais lol i'm french)
Bye !

Best regards

Antaris

Post edited by: Antaris, at: 11/03/2008 14:48

[jasonslan]

Re:newbie with a question

I've already figured that much out.. :-) what I'm looking for is that resulting file to be something easy to read (for like say a billing clerk)
is there a way to convert that file on the fly to something that can be read (Naturally) by a human?

Thanks,

--Jason

[nshaik]

Re:newbie with a question

Check-out these forum posts. They may be "old", but might help with creating PDFs on-the-fly.

can I do hl7 to pdf?

http://www.mirthproject.org/index.ph...=345&Itemid=63

Carriage return PDF and Text doc formatting

http://www.mirthproject.org/index.ph...=318&Itemid=63

Hope it helps!

Post edited by: nshaik, at: 11/04/2008 12:23