I have a vendor that only wants results on patients that arrive to the ED via EMS/Ambulance.  The value I need for filtering is in the PV2;38. Some of the results requested do not allow the PV2 segment to be added to the schema in the EMR.  I was told that other orgs have used a lookup table that is populated with the PV1;19 value when an ADT messages that meets the criteria is sent in.  This table is then referenced in the business rule for the results that do not have PV2;38 and if Encounter number from result message exists on the Table, the result is sent.  Has anyone done this before?  

Our lab system is now sending DSC segments in large Pathology results in the ORU message that is followed by a partial continuation message with only MSH and OBX segments.  the  pointer is in the MSH;14 in the subsequent message.  I believe the goal is to concatenate the first and second message but imagine this will require some custom functions which I have not done much of.  Anyone already tackled this by chance? 

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I am working in Ensemble (Health Connect) and doing an HL7 translation

I have what I hope is a simple coding question (but for the life of me, I am struggling).  I have a requirement where I need to extract the last 5 characters of a variable length string.  The return value should be those last 5 characters.  For example - String = CE325ACCT98765 where the return value of the function needs to be 98765.  I am just drawing a blank.

thank you,

Gigi

Hello,

I have been struggling and could use some help as I think I'm burnt.  I am trying to change a Textual 2.5.1 OBX;5 with multiple iterations to a simple non-iterating outbound result.  I have played around with $piece but can't seem to get it to work.  The outcome I would like is for OBX;5 to look like this: |Positive| and currently it looks like this: |Positive~_~_~_~_~|.  Any suggestions would be appreciated.