HL7 with imbedded .mht html

[Gina Borden]

I have a vendor who is sending me an HL7 file with an imbedded html file.  I am wondering if anyone has any experience converting this to an outbound HL7 file.

Here is a partial layout of the MDM^T02:

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MSH|^~

EVN|

PID|

PV1|

TXA|

OBX|1|TX|Operative-for-case-6090.mht^Operative-for-case-6090.mht||thread-index: Ac3SXsJZwBKjQ66STmO/h9N/8bONPg==X000d

MIME-Version: 1.0X000d

Content-Type: multipart/alternative;X000d

boundary=”—-=_NextPart_000_0034_01CDD234.D983FA90″X000d

Content-Location: file:///C:EtempEt__DFBB727D_219C_40E7_B137_F8EC293013CB_E9891E596_5F3B_4157_81DB_D886056BCA0FE\Rt0000000131.htmlX000d

Content-Class: urn:content-classes:messageX000d

Importance: normalX000d

Priority: normalX000d

X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.1.7600.16807X000d

X000d

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.X000d

X000d

---

=_NextPart_000_0034_01CDD234.D983FA90X000d

Content-Type: text/plain;X000d

charset=”Windows-1252″X000d

Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bitX000d

X000d

Wabash Valley Surgery CenterX000d

1421 N. 7th StreetX000d

Terre Haute, IN 47807X000d

==============================

Thanks,

Gina

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[Jim Kosloskey]

Gina,

Fom just a cursory review it appears as though the sending system is taking care of anything which might be an issue to Cloverleaf.

In other words, a simple COPY of OBX-5 should result in the outbound message looking like the inbound mesage because among other things they have deployed the HL/7 standard for escaping separators, etc.

However, the question becomes can the receiving systems handle this escaping? If not then the data on the receiving system may not look lthe same as it does on the sending system.

Moreover and additionally, can the receiving systems deal with HTML structured data?

email: jim.kosloskey@jim-kosloskey.com 29+ years Cloverleaf, 59 years IT - old fart.

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