In HL7 is there way to send bulk data

I have a question where I have over 30 000 records of data that I would like to send in HL7 and was looking at sending these in one bulk messages instead of individual messages in HL7.In this kind of a situation has anyone ever sent a bulk HL7 messages or is there a way of doing this other than using FHIR bundle.

Product version: IRIS 2024.1

Julian Matthews · Jun 2

It is technically possible, but you are somewhat limited by your receiving endpoints capability to receive these in batch.

It relies on the use of FHS (File Header) and BHS (Batch Header) segments at the start of your batch message, and then all of the content you wish to send in that batch, finalised with BTS (Batch Trailer) and FTS (File Trailer)

You may want to look first at how IRIS will display a batch message within the system here and look here as to how you can work with them. But I do want to stress again that you will want to ensure first and foremost that the system you want to send this to can actually support it so that you don't lose time to building a solution using this method only to find it will never work.

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