TIBCO Foresight® HIPAA Validator® Desktop Standards and Guidelines Reference
Manual
41 | Appendix A: HL7 Standards
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Personnel Management
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Claims and Reimbursement
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Materials Management
Parts of a Message
HL-7 messages:
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Begin with a Start Message (MSH) segment, which contains information such as from,
to, date, time, etc.
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Contain no End Message segment. The end of a message is signaled when another
Start Message (or Start Batch or Start File) segment is seen, or upon end-of-file.
One or more messages may be grouped into a Batch, which is explained below.
Parts of a Batch
One or more messages may be grouped into a batch. A batch:
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begins with a Start Batch Segment (BHS)
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is followed by one or more messages
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ends with an End Batch Segment (BTS).
One or more batches may be grouped into a file. A file:
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begins with a Start File Segment (FHS)
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ends with an End File Segment (FTS).
HL7 Specific Information
Users who are familiar with EDISIM, Instream, HIPAA Validator Desktop, and Foresight
Translator from working with X12 EDI will find the following differences when working with