WOW, that's some huge document, kinda meandering and not sure where it wants to go. :) I've written importers for such stuff in the past. Looks like a week long job there. a couple of points. Looks like an HL7 file is kind of a broad format. I'd shoot for whatever subset gets you what you need. Looks like there are there a lot of dependent tables you'll need to make it work. Am I right? Di you just need to parse this thing into pieces and toss it into a generic table, or are you gonna have a lot of other processing to make it work? On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 12:27, Kenneth B. Hill wrote: > An HL7 file is a tagged file used to transfer electronic health > records. The file looks like: > > MSH|^~\&|EPIC|EPICADT|SMS|SMSADT|199912271408|CHARRIS|ADT^A04|1817457| > EVN|A04|199912271408|||CHARRIS > PID||0493575^^^2^ID 1|454721||DOE^JOHN^^^^|DOE^JOHN^^^^|19480203|M| > NK1||CONROY^MARI^^^^|SPO||(216)731-4359||EC||||||||||||||||||||||||||| > PV1||O|168 ~219~C~PMA^^^^^^^^^||||277^ALLEN FADZL^BONNIE^^^^|||||||||| > > You can download a PDF for details here: > > http://www.hl7.org/Special/IG/final.pdf > > -Ken > > On May 12, 2006, at 10:01 AM, Scott Marlowe wrote: > > > On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 11:41, Kenneth B. Hill wrote: > >> I'm looking for a way to get an HL7 file into a table. My current > >> thinking is I need to parse the HL7 file to a flat-file and use the > >> copy command. I would appreciate some guidance on doing this. > >> Thank you. > > > > I'd love to help out. > > > > Just one thing... What's an HL7 file? >
