OBR fields to OBX segment

[Mark Brown]

I’m not sure how to tackle a vendor’s request. They’re wanting the ordering physician’s number and name copied from OBR:16 to a new OBX segment in this format:

OBX:3.1 – doc number

OBX:3.2 – doc number

OBX:5    – doc name

The vendor says they can’t retrieve from OBR:16 which is why they want it in an OBX segement.  The ORU messages they are recieving can have a varying number of OBX segments.  So I’m not really sure how I can do this.

Any suggestions?

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[David Dillard]

I would create a translate to iterate over the OBR segments, save the provider information for each OBR then loop over all the OBX segment under the OBR and set the fields using the variables.

iterate over the OBR segments

     save the provider information into variables

     iterate over the OBX segments for each OBR

           Set the OBX fields with the variables

[Michael Vork]

David,

You might ask your vendor was the point is of supporting HL7 only partially? All or nothing would be better.

Greetings,

Micha

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