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  • March 2, 2006 at 8:07 pm #48366
    Anna Flores
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      Good Afternoon Everyone!

      where to begin…

      how do i maintain the integrity of “garbage in, garbage out”?

      Let me try to explain with an example

      1 of many examples…given HL7 standard delimiters…I have a system that is sending & in PID.5 HL7 v2.3 (XPN data type). During translation to PID.5 HL7 v2.2 (PN data type), the & is getting converted to ^. I’m assuming that the engine is trying to correct the formatting of the field to reflect the data type definition.

      Can someone explain why the engine is doing this?

      How can I prevent this…or can I?

      We are on QDX V5.2 Rev 2 on AIX 5.2.0.0

      Your input is greatly appreciated…

      Anna M Flores

      Lead Programmer/Analyst

      Memorial Hermann

      Houston, TX

      713-448-6259

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      • March 3, 2006 at 8:14 pm #58420
        Dorian DiNardo
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          Hi Anna,

          I think you can change your field on your outbound HL7 variant to XPN. Otherwise I would write a post proc to substitute the ^ for an & in PID.5.

          Good luck,

          Dorian

        • March 3, 2006 at 8:54 pm #58421
          Anna Flores
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            Thanks Dorian. I instead changed the XPN to PN since I did not have the option in 2.2 to change the PN to XPN. I still get the & changed to a ^.

            The real fix is for my sending sysem to not send & as text in the HL7 fields. They are exploring feasible options.

            However, I would really like to know if someone has an explanation for what Cloverleaf translator is doing and why.

            THANKS!

            The weekend is upon us…hope everyone has a good one!

            Anna M Flores

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