Hi John,

Thanks for the offer to help.

Well from the interviews I had, it became clear that our application should get the basic patientdata like name, address, city etc from the hospital system when a hospital number is entered. In fact in first instance it should be one way trafic: from the hospital system into our application. Further "it would be nice" that some specific testresult could be imported into the application.

In a later stage it might be nice to get some data in our system get uploaded into the hospital system. Since the department the application gets used in is rather isolated from the rest of the hospital this is not an inmediate requirement.

Walter,

>Walter
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>In 1997 we did a dial-in HL7 system for one of the big international drug companies. Patients on a certain medication visit labs for tests all over the country. The results are sent to our app which parses the different sorts of HL7, correlates all the various expressions of the same test value (different reference ranges, labels etc) and warns of patient safety issues. In 2002 we did another one to do exactly the same task, this one is a web system still in testing at http://www.clopine.co.nz .
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>Glad to assist if you get stuck, I may not be able to tell you all the right things to do but I can certainly warn you what NOT to do!
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>Regards
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>JR