Audio file embedded in HL7 message

[Jim]

Hello fellow Clovertechers,

Has anyone had the opportunity to embed audio files in an HL7 message?

Thank you,

Jim

Jim

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[David Barr]

I haven’t done this, but it should be similar to other types of binary data that I’ve sent with messages. Usually you would use an ORU^R01 message type and put the data in OBX-5. You can take the audio file contents, base64 encode it and escape any HL7 delimiters in the resulting data as necessary. Another option is to put the audio files on a network file share an put the path to the file in OBX-5.

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