Comment by lostlogin

HL7 is such a monstrosity. Once you have used it you are forever sadder and that this became the default spec for everything in health is really disappointing.

Edit: for the uninitiated. Excuse the readable line breaks, this isn’t defined in the spec (or at least is done differently by all vendors). You won’t have to suffer long though as you’ll go blind reading the ||| and ^^ when debugging.

  MSH|^~\&|EPIC|EPICADT|SMS|SMSADT|199912271408|CHARRIS|ADT^A04|1817457|D|2.5|
  PID||0493575^^^2^ID 1|454721||DOE^JOHN^^^^|DOE^JOHN^^^^|19480203|M||B|254 MYSTREET AVE^^MYTOWN^OH^44123^USA||(216)123-4567|||M|NON|400003403~1129086|
  NK1||ROE^MARIE^^^^|SPO||(216)123-4567||EC|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
  PV1||O|168 ~219~C~PMA^^^^^^^^^||||277^ALLEN MYLASTNAME^BONNIE^^^^|||||||||| ||2688684|||||||||||||||||||||||||199912271408||||||002376853