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HL7 Segment Groups
A practical guide to HL7 segment groups, explaining optional and repeating groups, why position matters, why group-aware mapping is awkward, and how HL7 Soup Web and Integration Soup help.
Scheduling over HL7
A practical guide to HL7 scheduling messages, covering SIU, SCH, AIS, AIG, AIL, AIP, appointment timing, status, services, locations, personnel, and resource handling from experience.
Which HL7 version should I use?
A practical guide to choosing an HL7 v2 version, why the latest version is not automatically best, and how country, specialty, and implementation guides usually matter more.
HL7 for ADT and patient administration
A practical guide to HL7 ADT and patient administration interfaces, covering admissions, transfers, discharges, registration, updates, merges, PID, PV1, MRG, routing, and Integration Soup workflows.
HL7 for lab and pathology results
A practical guide to HL7 lab and pathology result interfaces, covering ORU_R01, OBR, OBX, SPM, abnormal flags, status, repeating observations, and Integration Soup workflows.
HL7 for radiology orders and results
A practical guide to HL7 radiology order and result interfaces, covering ORM, OMI, ORU, ORC, OBR, accession numbers, modality workflow, reports, and Integration Soup routing.
HL7 for immunization VXU
A practical guide to HL7 VXU immunization interfaces, covering CDC Release 1.5, VXU_V04, RXA, RXR, OBX observations, acknowledgments, and Integration Soup validation.
HL7 for billing and DFT
A practical guide to HL7 DFT billing interfaces, covering DFT_P03, FT1, DG1, PR1, insurance context, charge correction, and Integration Soup support workflows.
HL7 for pharmacy
A practical guide to HL7 pharmacy interfaces, covering RDE, RDS, RXE, RXO, RXR, ORC, medication orders, dispense workflows, safety checks, and Integration Soup routing.
HL7 for documents and PDFs
A practical guide to HL7 document interfaces, covering MDM_T02, TXA, OBX ED values, Base64 PDFs, document identity, status, and Integration Soup workflows.
HL7 for master files and MFN
A practical guide to HL7 master file interfaces, covering MFN, MFI, MFE, MFK, provider, location, charge, test dictionaries, record-level events, and Integration Soup workflows.
HL7 for interface-engine transformations
A practical guide to HL7 interface-engine transformation work, covering mapping, routing, ACKs, repeats, identifiers, version differences, tests, and Integration Soup workflows.
HL7 for ultrasound orders and reports
A practical guide to HL7 ultrasound order and report workflows, covering radiology-style ORM/ORU, OBR, OBX, DICOM SR, measurements, narrative reports, and Integration Soup mapping.
HL7 for emergency department workflows
A practical guide to HL7 emergency department workflows, covering ADT A04/A08/A03, PV1, DG1, OBX triage observations, syndromic reporting, and Integration Soup routing.
HL7 for maternity, newborn, and mother/baby linkage
A practical guide to HL7 maternity and newborn interfaces, covering ADT, PID, NK1, PID-21, multiple births, visit linkage, baby identity, and Integration Soup workflows.
HL7 for provider identifiers and master data
A practical guide to HL7 provider identifiers, XCN, STF, PRA, PMU, MFN, assigning authorities, NPI-style identifiers, and Integration Soup mapping.
HL7 for multi-site hospitals and facility routing
A practical guide to HL7 multi-site routing, covering MSH facilities, PV1 locations, assigning authorities, facility codes, ADT, orders, results, and Integration Soup operations.
HL7 for public health reporting
A practical guide to HL7 public health reporting, covering ELR, syndromic surveillance, immunization, ORU, ADT, VXU, local implementation guides, and Integration Soup workflows.
HL7 for imaging result documents and narrative reports
A practical guide to HL7 imaging result documents, covering ORU_R01, MDM, TXA, OBX, report status, PDF/Base64 payloads, IHE Results Distribution, and Integration Soup workflows.
Debugging HL7 by workflow: what to check first
A practical debugging guide for HL7 workflows, covering ADT, orders, results, billing, documents, scheduling, ACKs, identifiers, status fields, and HL7 Soup Web.
HL7 for cancer registry and pathology reporting
A carefully scoped guide to HL7 cancer registry and pathology reporting, covering ORU_R01, OBR, OBX, SPM, NAACCR guidance, synoptic reports, and Integration Soup validation workflows.