Best Tool to write up HL7 Requirements

[Muzammil Siddiqui]

Hi, I'm Interface Analyst and looking for some tools/template to write up Requirements . Please share .

 

Thanks

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[Mark Singleton]

What Type of Requirements? Are you looking to create a new
application and want to see how it would use the Different HL7
Messages or what? Please give more detail.


Mark Singleton, CPHIMS
Director, Software Development & Computer Operations, RxAmerica LLC

[Thomas E. Canter]

Ok, I love HL7.org Message Workbench.
It is the supported by HL7 tool, the price is right, and it has many deep
features including message validation, MLLP Server and client support an so
on.

I use it to help me in my BizTalk work and is somewhat easy to use.

http://www.hl7.org/Special/committees/conformance/docs.cfm

All in one tool that is supported by the HL7 committee members.

Tom

[Muzammil Siddiqui]

I'm looking for general HL7 data reader wherr I can input HL7 data and get an record layout report in excel.

 

Thanks

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[Mark Singleton]

I have used NeoTools in the past and loved it.

http://www.neotool.com/product.html

Mark Singleton, CPHIMS
Director, Software Development & Computer Operations, RxAmerica LLC

On Apr 6, 8:02 pm, "Muzammil Siddiqui" <muzamm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm looking for general HL7 data reader wherr I can input HL7 data and get
> an record layout report in excel.
>
> Thanks
>

> Muzammil Siddiqui | Executive Vice President | Realtor (R)

> 135 E. Algonquin Road, Arlington Heights, IL 60005
> T 847-668-4059 | F 847-592-0892

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[Thomas E. Canter]

I’m not sure what you would want to do like that…

Excel is column and row oriented and HL7 is a delimited structure.

I’ve seen people use excel, but I’ve always felt the two did not match.

 

Imagine the PID Segment

PID|0|11-1234^14^SHA^2007|||Bruester^Jester^^II^DR

The PID 5 is a complex structure type PN describing the patient name.

The Excel column for that would only contain the value Bruester^Jester^^II^DR but would not contain the details of that structure.

 

The best you could do is to import the structure into Excel using the | character as a delimiter with that limitation.

 

I’m sure you are comfortable with importing HL7 data into excel, but how to decode that is a problem. The types of data; HL7 and Excel; do not match each other well.

 

Thanks,

Tom