Trigger
Serves as the integration point between the application workflow and Bridges
-generally an action in Hyperspace, like clicking a button or
... [Show More] closing an activity
-a single, clearly defined action that a user or process can take that results in an interface message being created and sent
An interface message contains....
Data about an event (like a patient being admitted to the hospital)
MSH-11 and MSH-12 are...
the HL7 processing ID and version; Epic checks these values on an incoming message and rejects the message if they do not match the expected values
Segment Identifier
Three character code that identifies what kind of data that segment contains
PID-5
patient name
NTE segment
can follow many different segments
Z-segment
custom segment for a specific implementation
Is it necessary to send empty fields following the last valued field?
No
Within a field do you need to send all components?
Only as many as are valued
Blank fields...
don't file anything
Delete character HL7
double quotes " "--- tells the receiving system to delete a piece of info it has
FHIR
specifies RESTful exchange method via HTTPs to access data
Other standards supported by Bridges
X12, FHIR, NCPDP, DICOM, and Direct
Event (in context of outgoing message flow)
small set of values with the necessary info to build the message: patient ID, patient contact, type of message, and additional info
-contains directions for where the interface should pull the information it needs from the database
Queue
storage location outside of Chronicles database structure
Event Queue is procesed by...
the Event Daemon
Daemon (Outgoing Message Flow)
process that runs in the background without any direct user action
Event Daemon (Outgoing Message Flow)
pulls an event off the Event Queue, uses the information in the event to build the message and finally deletes the event from the event queue.
The event daemon puts the message it has built onto the data queue and adds an instruction to the Control Queue
builds an HL7 message based on data pulled from Chronicles [Show Less]