PDL – Billing File Help

[Mark Carey]

Hi I’m trying to get some billing messages from our system through cloverleaf to the foreign system.  HL7 messages, with Header FHS, BHS and trailer messages, BTS, FTS.  Sending from our system directly to LSS the billing system works fine and they are able to create the file correctly on their side.

But CL doesn’t like the format of messages.  Is it possible to create a flexible PDL?  The FHS message has several 0D/0A combinations followed by 0b a the start of the message, with 0D/0A at the end of the message.  The rest of the messages only have 0D/0A at the end of the messages, NO 0b at the beginning.  Can this be accomodated in a PDL?  Or do I have to use a different protocol.  I’ve tried straight tcpip but have not been able to get that to work either.  Tried encapsulation /n but it sends every segment as a new message.

Any ideas?

If I force the 0b at the start from our sending system then the billing system doesn’t work correctly.

Any advice would be appreciated.

thanks,

Mark Carey

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[Elisha Gould]

Your options for this are really:

* Use a different encapsulation other than MLLP (length encoding??)

* Remove/Replace the offending characters.

* Encode the characters with the hex escape ie X0D0A or X0D\X0A

technically hl7 should only ever have standard ASCII characters. All others should be escaped.

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