OBX 5 issue

[Rick Pritchett]

Tried using pathcopy to copy the OBX 5 field but get an empty field.

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[Jim Kosloskey]

Rickey,

Show us the input.

Jim Kosloskey

email: jim.kosloskey@jim-kosloskey.com 30+ years Cloverleaf, 60 years IT – old fart.

[Rick Pritchett]

MSH|^~&|Camtronics^1.2.840.113697^CONDOR|Camtronics^1.2.840.113697^ANSI|||20070404164702||ORU^R01|5|P|2.3|||AL|||||

PID|||M000001043^||TREE^OAK^||19500101|M||2^|||||||||888-88-7777||||||||||||

PV1||I|8NOR^82201^1^||||BACBRU01^Bruce^R^|NO-REF02*^Referring^Doctor^|BURROB01^Burdge^Robert^E^||||||||BACBRU01^Bruce^R^||H00000015560^||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||

ORC|RE||5|

OBR||VASC20070323-0003^|5|ARTERIAL^ARTERIAL^|||20070404145422|||||||||BACBRU01^Bacon&&^Bruce^R^|||||2|20070328103331|||C|||||||BACBRU01&Bacon&Bruce&R&&&&&&^||||||||||||||

OBX|1|FT||1|Emageon~900 Walnut Ridge Drive, Hartland, WI 53029~Phone: (800) 332-4466 Fax: (262) 367-0717~http://www.camtronics.com~

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[Jim Kosloskey]

Rickey,

The OBX-5 field is a repeating field in this message.

You will need to iterate over the field.

Jim Kosloskey

email: jim.kosloskey@jim-kosloskey.com 30+ years Cloverleaf, 60 years IT – old fart.

[Gary Atkinson]

There is open source app out there called “HL7Inspector” (you can find in on sourceforge) that parses out the HL7 message.  When you load this message in the app it will show you exactly where the repeating field is.  Pretty cool  8)

[Charlie Bursell]

This tool is OK to add to your tool chest but IMHO you are better off getting full address for iterates, etc. using hcihl7test.

As for PATHCOPY of the entire field, if you address just the field with no modifiers it should copy the entire field.

For example:

PATHCOPY 0(0)OBX.#5 -> 0(0)OBX.#5

should copy all iterations

But

PATHCOPY 0(0)OBX.#5(0) -> 0(0)OBX(0).#5 will only copt the first iteration

If you want to get rid of the iterationas altogether use an iterate as Jim said and append each iteration to OBX(0).#5.  Or, you could use a simple pre-xlate tcl proc in the route and just remove the iteration characters from the field or replace them with blanks using a string map command.  Either method should be a relatively simple operation

[Rick Pritchett]

i have used the iterate but still only get the 1st word in the OBX

using

type: field

basis: 0(0)OBX.00573

Variable: %f1

Pathcopy

0(0).OBX.00573 -> 0(0).OBX.00561

i know i need to put the variable in the copy some where

but where

[Gary Atkinson]

I “think” you need to put it here:

0(0).OBX.00561(%f1)

If I am remembering from level1 class there is an implyed (0) at the end of the field number for repetitions.

[Rick Pritchett]

for some reason i am still getting the first iteration only

[Gary Atkinson]

Do have your interate like this?

0(0).OBX.00573(%f1) -> 0(0).OBX.00561(%f1)

[Rick Pritchett]

yes i do

[Keith McLeod]

Try using the copy command instead of pathcopy.  Also is there a repeating group that the OBX is contained in?

[Rick Pritchett]

no the OBX 5 is one long repeating field

[Chris Williams]

Do both variants have OBX-5 set as repeating and with an appropriate maximum?

[Rick Pritchett]

They do now and after i did that it worked like it should

Thanks to all for the help

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