Recently we had to load a bunch of records from a flat CSV file.
We have an external shell script that converted the file into HL7.
We tried 3 different ways to then load the message thru Cloverleaf into our EPIC system.
1) Each line in the flat file was placed in a single .msg file in a directory to be picked up by Cloverleaf.
2) Created a single file full of HL7 messages in a directory to be picked up by Cloverleaf.
3) Opened the Control setting for the inbound interface and used the “Resend” function to send the file.
We were very surprised that the last method was the fastest (on a factor of about 8 times faster). Is this expected or should either of the 1st 2 methods ben faster?