HL7 Soup Online · 44-second tip
Find the visit number instantly
Highlight PV1-19 once and find the visit number in every message you open. Use another color for the patient MRN or other fields you check often.
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Try it yourself
- Find the visit number in PV1-19 and right-click it.
- Under Highlight, choose Blue, Green, or Orange.
- Open another message. Its visit number is highlighted automatically.
- Repeat for other fields you use often, such as the patient MRN in PID-3.
Video transcript
0:00Quick! Where's the visit number in this HL7 message? Count the pipes, and it's field 19: PV1-19. Easy to miss, but you need it all the time.
0:11HL7 Soup can find it for you. Right-click it, and under Highlight, choose Blue. Now it stands out.
0:19And not just in this message. Every message you open has its visit number highlighted, automatically.
0:26Do the same for other fields you hunt for, like the patient's MRN, in green. And there they are, in every message you open.
0:38HL7 Soup Online is free. Just search HL7 Soup.
Music: “Easy Lemon” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.