Sample HL7 File

Sample Result file from CCHIT

MSH|^~\&|^CCHITLabs^L-CL|^CCHIT^L-CL|^^|^^|20100407121000||ORU^R01^ORU_R01|20100407121000|P|2.5.1|0001||AL||||MT-ORU-2_R1
PID|1|12|00000333^^^^AN||Grayson^Jim^^^^^L||19430309|M|||834 Ocean Vista Avenue^Apt. 202^Santa Monica^CA^90401||3105552233
ORC|RE|||3^EHR-System
OBR|1|3^EHR-System|LAB003^^CCHIT^L-CL|087-0714^Lipid Panel, Serum^99Lab^80061^Lipid Panel, Serum^C4|||20100407151000||||L|||||PRO1000#^Butler^Internist^E^^Dr^MD^^^^^^EI||||RO||20100407121000|||F
OBX|1|NM|13457-7^LDL Cholesterol^LN||90|mg/dL|< 99||||F|||||^DOE^JOHN|||||||AccuLabs^^^^^CLIA^^^^10D987432|432 Administration Ave.^^St. Louis^MO^63146|^Smith^John^^^Dr.^MD
NTE|0|L|
OBX|2|NM|14646-4^HDL Cholesterol^LN||60|mg/dL|40-59|H|||F|||||^DOE^JOHN|||||||AccuLabs^^^^^CLIA^^^^10D987432|432 Administration Ave.^^St. Louis^MO^63146|^Smith^John^^^Dr.^MD
NTE|0|L|
OBX|3|NM|14647-2^Total Cholesterol^LN||120|mg/dL|< 199||||F|||||^DOE^JOHN|||||||AccuLabs^^^^^CLIA^^^^10D987432|432 Administration Ave.^^St. Louis^MO^63146|^Smith^John^^^Dr.^MD
NTE|0|L|
OBX|4|NM|14927-8^Triglycerides^LN||100|mg/dL|< 149||||F|||||^DOE^JOHN|||||||AccuLabs^^^^^CLIA^^^^10D987432|432 Administration Ave.^^St. Louis^MO^63146|^Smith^John^^^Dr.^MD
NTE|0|L|


Example HL7 Message

HL7 messages are in human-readable (ASCII) format, though they may require some effort to interpret.

Each HL7 message consists of one or more segments. A carriage return character (\r, which is 0D in hexadecimal) separates one segment from another. Each segment is displayed on a different line of text. (as seen in the sample HL7 message below)

Each HL7 segment consists of one or more composites (also known as fields). A pipe (|) character is used to separate one composite from another.

If a composite contains other composites, these sub-composites (or sub-fields) are normally separated by ^ characters.


Sample HL7 message:

MSH|^~\&|EPIC|EPICADT|SMS|SMSADT|199912271408|CHARRIS|ADT^A04|1817457|D|2.5|
PID||0493575^^^2^ID 1|454721||DOE^JOHN^^^^|DOE^JOHN^^^^|19480203|M||B|254 MYSTREET AVE^^MYTOWN^OH^44123^USA||(216)123-4567|||M|NON|400003403~1129086|
NK1||ROE^MARIE^^^^|SPO||(216)123-4567||EC|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
PV1||O|168 ~219~C~PMA^^^^^^^^^||||277^ALLEN MYLASTNAME^BONNIE^^^^|||||||||| ||2688684|||||||||||||||||||||||||199912271408||||||002376853