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  • December 5, 2007 at 6:22 pm #49679
    James Sedlmeyer
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      I’ve been given the assignment of taking an inbound radiology report in HL7 format and creating a vrl or frl outbound ascii file. The outbound ascii file needs to contain all report control characters that are necessary to allow each report to be formatted and printed when sent to a printer.

      Has anyone out there designed anything like this in Cloverleaf

      Thanks

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      • December 5, 2007 at 7:02 pm #63063
        James Cobane
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          James,

          It sounds like this may be better suited to use an HRL definition.  Since an HRL is comprised of one or more FRL definitions, you could use this to create a text document from the HL7.  I’m assuming you need to map each OBX to a separate line on the outbound transaction, so you could create an FRL that is one long field (i.e. 80-characters) and a single character field.  Then use this FRL in an HRL, marked as repeating, and within the Xlate iter over your OBX’s mapping the OBX:5 (I’m assuming) to the long field, and a new-line character to the single character field.

          Hope this helps.

          Jim Cobane

          Henry Ford Health

        • December 5, 2007 at 7:11 pm #63064
          James Sedlmeyer
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            Jim

            Thanks for your prompt response. I was just looking to be pointed in the right direction and you really helped.

            Jim

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