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Electronic Transfer of Investigations - Technical Guide
File Formats
Clinical supports Investigations Results transferred in HL7 and PIT file formats

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  Use the Manage Communications utility to configure how Investigation Results are imported to Clinical.
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- Technical Reference
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  - Electronic Transfer of Investigations - Technical Guide
    - Transferring Data to the Customer
    - Running Your Download Program
    - File Formats
      Clinical supports Investigations Results transferred in HL7 and PIT file formats
    - Importing the Result Files into MedicalDirector Clinical
    - File Naming Conventions
    - Adding/Registering File Types
    - Managing Investigations Results Using MedicalDirector Clinical
    - Notes About Electronic Transfer of Investigations
    - File Formats for Data Transfer
      This section details the use and specifications of the various proprietary file formats used for linking, importing, exporting and the general transfer of data between Clinical and other programs or modules.
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  Instances of 'nec' found following refer to "Not Elsewhere Classified".
- Clinical System Requirements
  This information applies to MedicalDirector Clinical 4.3.

File Formats

Clinical supports Investigations Results transferred in HL7 and PIT file formats

There are two industry standard file formats used for transferring Investigations Results information:

PIT - a simple, text based, space-delimited format without the advanced features of HL7. PIT files may be found embedded in an OBX segment of an HL7 message.
HL7 - the Australian Standard for the electronic transfer of medical information, including Investigations Results. Further information about HL7 is available from Standards Australia. Other standards in the HL7 series exist for the transfer of other clinical information. An HL7 message is broken into segments, each containing specific information, and identified by an alpha/numeric coded prefix. For example, the result information is in the OBX segment(s).
- AS 4700.2 - 2004 Implementation of Health Level Seven (HL7) Version 2.3.1 Part 2: Pathology orders and results
- AS 4700.2 - 2007 Implementation of Health Level Seven (HL7) Version 2.4 Part 2: Pathology and medical imaging (diagnostics)
- AS 4700.6 - 2004 Implementation of Health Level Seven - HL7 Version 2.3.1 - Referral and discharge summary
Note:
HL7 files may be opened in a text editor, but should not be edited, as this may damage the data, preventing them being imported into Clinical. These files may be difficult to read as they are frequently created without line breaks between segments and they contain large numbers of non-alphanumeric characters. The files are text based, with the data delimited by pipes and carats ( | and ^ ). Currently images or hyperlinks are not able to be received by Clinical. Results containing this type of information cause errors that will abort the import process.