I now have moved on to the ORU message I need to send back. I now need to use the patient’s admission number and our lab system’s order number to look up the requester’s order number. I figure that I will need to do this in my translation table, since I am already doing some substitution in the MSH segment. My question is “How?”
I know where my admission number and lab order number will be in the ORU message (PID 18 and ORC 2 respectively).