Simple(?) Routing Question

[Doug Stelley]

When setting up a route, (HL7 2.3 – 3.8.1p) can I send a message to the same thread twice (or 3 times) using different TPS’s?

I need to take an existing ORM going to a worklist generator, and send it again with a different OBR(18) value for XRAY’s

This will allow a worklist (example) for MRI & Flouro to come from 1 order.

I thought about rerunning the message back through, but I wonder if just sending it more than once in the routing would be more efficient.

I allready have preprocs setup and xlates for this message, this would be a postproc to change the OBR(18) value.

Just wondering before I build it…

Doug

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[David Caragay]

If I understand you correctly, you would like to take a message and create two outbound messages utilizing one xlate.

[Doug Stelley]

I think I understand, I’m just playing it out in my head here:

ORM in, passes the preproc to determine its an XRAY order

into the xlate, goes through normal processing and on its way. SO if I put in an IF-THEN to see if OBR18 is RF and so change OBR18 to XR and “SEND”?

This will create 2 messages?

if thats correct then that would have to be the most efficient

[David Caragay]

Sounds right.  This assumes you only want to create a second msg if your IF,then statement is true.  You may want to use CONTINUE instead of SEND as long as you don’t mind passing the msg through the post-xlate proc.

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