Newbie getting started

[Graham]

I'm trying to follow the getting started guide and am stuck.

I pasted my test hl7 message ( into the message template ) which was sent to me via Labcorp

MSH|^~\&|1100|BN|MLI|TESTKDTM|200609121244||ORU|00 97|P|2.3|||AL
PID|1||255X9800010||TEST^DUDE||19551225|M||||||||| |45400000^^^03^^F^Y
NTE|1|L|PATIENT WAS FASTING
ORC|RE|255X9800010^LAB|255X9800010^LAB||||||200609 120000
OBR|1|255X9800010^LAB|255X9800010^LAB|001032^Gluco se, Serum^L|||200609110840|||||||200609120000||||||255 X9800010||200609121244||%!|F
OBX|1|NM|001032^Glucose, Serum^L||88|mg/dL|65-99|||N|F|20040126||200609121238|%!
NTE|2|L|~Performed At: %!, Conversion Testing~3060 S Church Street Burlington,
NC 272150000~Conversio Testing Phone: 3365845171

but when I click on the HL7 Tree tab, I get "Encoding not supported ... " error message.

[nico]

Re: Newbie getting started

Your HL7 message doesn't seem correct to me ... please verify MSH-9 ... should be "ORU^R01" instead of "ORU".

I haven't tested if this solves the issue in Mirth...

[Graham]

Re: Newbie getting started

I manually altered the MSH-9 to this with no change.
All my HL7 results from other sources are just "ORU" as well.

I also removed the line wrap in the last line.

[chrisl]

Re: Newbie getting started

Graham - are you using Mirth 1.1 or 1.2? We've relaxed the line encoding parsing for the HL7 Tree Viewer in 1.2. This MIGHT be your issue, however nico is also correct - we can not process a message without the proper type.

All hope is not lost however. You can manually modify this for the HL7 tree viewer and you can also create a short preprocessor script that corrects the message before Mirth attempts to decode it. (1.2 only).

-Chris

[Graham]

Re: Newbie getting started

Looks like the problem was there were some hidden characters added by Word when I was sent the test message.

Other messages I have tried work.

Thanks.