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by eclipxe 1124 days ago
I designed HL7v2 and v3 (xml based) parsers in Mirth. It was horrible, but boy did I learn a ton. Subtle bugs could lead to scary outcomes like drug doses being way off. Seeing the string “PID” still causes nightmares.
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Pelvis Inflammatory Disease as a data format - a perfect description for HL7.
Mirth is so useful for debugging, though.