Hello David,
DG> I learnt yesterday that neither the HL7 or PIT specifications DG> support the transmission of BLOBs. My next mission is to stop the DG> specialists sending graphics in their letters. Its called Encapsulated data in HL7 and it does support blob data but its not widely supported in PMS. This has been in the standard for some time.... You can specify data type and data subtypes eg images, rtf, scanned documents etc etc It in an OBX segment. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Health Level Seven, Version 2.3.1 © 1999. All rights reserved. Page 2-29 Final Standard. 05/1999 2.8.16 ED - encapsulated data Components: <source application (HD) > ^ <type of data (ID)> ^ <data subtype (ID)> ^ <encoding (ID)> ^ <data (ST)> This data type transmits encapsulated data from a source system to a destination system. It contains the identity of the source system, the type of data, the encoding method of the data, and the data itself. This data type is similar to the RP (reference pointer) data type of Section 2.8.36, RP - reference pointer, except that instead of pointing to the data on another system, it contains the data which is to be sent to that system. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Best regards, Andrew mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Andrew McIntyre Buderim Gastroenterology Centre www.buderimgastro.com.au PH: 07 54455055 FAX: 54455047 _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
