Andrew McIntyre wrote: >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.... > > Thanks Andrew
I must have misinterpreted what tech support was saying. They did mention pointers to BLOBs held on the sender's database but this is usually of little interest to GPs who have to deal with a higher level of information. You should join the keyserver list. Your expertise would be very welcome there. David >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. > >----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- "UFW. Deb does linux."
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