Topic 6.3

Question 1

What is HL7?

Answer 1

HL7 is a standard for exchanging, integrating, sharing and retrieving Electronic medical information of patient in hospital to support efficient care for patient

Question 2

What is the Structure of a Message in HL7?

Answer 2

First you have a Segment which can be broken down into Smaller chunks called fields which can be broken down into smaller chunks called components which can than be divided into subcomponents or repeaters

Question 3

How do we Separate Fields?

Answer 3

using this symbol |

Question 4

How do we Separate Components?

Answer 4

Using this Symbol ^

Question 5

How do we Separate components into sub components and prefix?

Answer 5

Using this Symbol &

Question 6

How do we Allow of repeatable field components?

Answer 6

Using this Symbol ~

Question 7

How do we Identify a Segment?

Answer 7

It usually has it 3 Letter Identifier all Capitalized and all in Blue

Question 8

What are Data types?

Answer 8

They basically set certain values formats and vocab that can be in the field, component and sub component that is appropriate for that segment

Question 9

What are 2 data types?

Answer 9

Simple and Complex

Simple= Contain 1 value
Complex = Contain more than 1 value and can be different data types