Incoming ORM message – Add OBX to OBR’s

[Femina Jaffer]

Hello All,

I could really use some help on this if possible, as I have burned myself trying to figure this out.

I need to create an OBX segment for each OBR message in an incoming ORM message.  I could do this in tcl, but we are trying to implement a standard here to use xlates whenever possible.

I am ABLE to get the first occurence of the OBR to generate an OBX, but I can not do this for the repeating occurences (second or third).  Here is what I have got so far, and help or advice would be much appreciated (the inbound message is coming from a meditech system without an OBX).

ITERATE BASIS:  group:     2(0).1       %g1

–>IF 2(%g1).1(0).0(0).OBR(0).00249.[0] ne @null

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> COPY 2(%g1).1(0).0(0).OBR(0).00249.[0]

                    => 2(0).1(0).1(0).0(%g1).OBX(0).00573.[0]

OBX (output) basis looks like this:

2.1.1.0   or  2(0).1(0).1(0).0(0)

ANY HELP or feedback would be so much appreciated.  Thanks.

Mina

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[Anonymous]

Hi Femina,

I’m assuming you already checked this, but check your outbound variant to make sure that the OBX segment is set up as repeating.   If this is set up correctly, then the next thing I would try is to take an outbound message to that system that you know already has multiple OBX’s.  Run that message through the HL7tester against your variant.  Take a look at how it is repeating and make sure you have your variable in the correct position.

If neither of these work, you have my email, feel free to contact me.

Thanks….

Tom Rioux

The Methodist Hospital

[Femina Jaffer]

Thank you Tom.  All of this has been checked, and I am still having this problem.

fj

[Femina Jaffer]

Thank you Rentian (Sam), and Tom.  

I finally got this too work, I had to change the iterate type to segment and basis (%s1) as my bais was:

2(0).1(0).0(0).OBR

Thank you again guys!

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