HL7 Soup Desktop · 47-second tip

Filter 250,000 HL7 messages in seconds

Use Statistics to narrow a quarter of a million messages down to the ICU discharges you need, then copy, download, or send the filtered messages.

Try it yourself

  1. Click the trigger event field, MSH-9.2. Statistics counts its values across the message list.
  2. Double-click A03 in Statistics to filter to discharges.
  3. Select the ward field, PV1-3.1, and double-click ICU. This example narrows 250,000 messages down to 2,503 ICU discharges.
  4. Tweak or remove a filter, or add one with the filter button.
  5. Copy, download, or send over MLLP/TCP with Auto send. Only the filtered messages are included.

Video transcript

0:00250,000 HL7 messages, and you only need the discharges from ICU? Click a field, and Statistics counts every value it has, across all of them.

0:11Double-click a value, and you're down to just those messages. Now the ward. Double-click ICU, and there they are: just the ICU discharges.

0:20Each one is a filter you can tweak or remove, or add your own with the filter button.

0:26And best of all, copy them, download them, or send them on over MLLP, and only the filtered messages go.

0:35That was 250,000 messages. HL7 Soup Desktop handles 10, even 100 times more. Try it free for 30 days.

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