Two more alternatives:
1) can the string be treated as a dumb text string rather than as a phone number
2) I can ask the data broker whether there is anything they can do about their
own conversion process, however I expect they are limited in what they can do,
depending on a variety of "loose" formats that the originating labs may
inconsistently use
-----Original Message-----
> Date: Mon Feb 11 16:32:34 PST 2008
> From: "James Busser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [Gnumed-devel] LabImporters (first draft) specification complete
> -- redux
> To: "Dave Cramer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
> On 11-Feb-08, at 4:19 PM, Dave Cramer wrote:
>
> > Also while were on the subject what do you want to do about the
> > phone numbers which are formatted as 519-555-1212 as opposed to
> > (519) 555-1212?
> > Hapi throws an exception when parsing this which suggests that this
> > is not valid. A cursory glance at the HL7 spec agrees with this.
> > However if Excelleris is sending this data we will have to handle it.
>
> The number could be useful to preserve for confirming the identity of
> unmatched patients. Is it hard to evaluate such strings for the
> presence of two "-"s and in the event of two, to replace the first
> with a close-parens ")" and to prepend to this string a left parens "("?
>
> If not, Mirth may provide for such things with pre-processing.
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