HL7 Soup Online · 40-second tip

Share an HL7 message as a link

Send a colleague a link that opens your HL7 message in their browser, with a plain-English message story to help them understand it.

Try it yourself

  1. Press Ctrl+F2 to anonymize the patient details.
  2. Right-click the message and choose Copy message as link.
  3. Paste the link into an email. Your colleague can open it in HL7 Soup Online without installing anything.
  4. Use the message story to read the message in plain English. Click the patient name or visit to jump to that field.

Video transcript

0:00Need a colleague to check an HL7 message? Send it as a link.

0:04First, press Ctrl+F2 to anonymize the patient details. Then right-click the message, and choose Copy message as link.

0:12Paste it into an email, and hit send. When they click it, the message opens in HL7 Soup, right in their browser. Nothing to install.

0:22Now they can understand the message too. The message story explains it in plain English. Click the patient's name, or the visit, and HL7 Soup jumps right to it.

0:33HL7 Soup Online is free. Just search HL7 Soup.

Music: “Easy Lemon” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.