Topic outline

• Creating a Custom HL7 V2 Search Table

  Creating a Custom HL7 V2 Search Table

  Content Type
  Video

  Duration
  6m

  Level
  Advanced

  See how to define custom search tables in HealthShare® or InterSystems IRIS® for Health, making searches for HL7® V2 messages faster and more efficient. You can create custom search tables by using InterSystems ObjectScript to extend an existing class in VS Code.

  • Experience working with the HL7 V2 standard is recommended.
  • To follow the steps in this video, first install ObjectScript extensions for VS Code (video, 4m).
  • Take InterSystems ObjectScript Basics to refresh your knowledge (online course, 1h).
• Code Used in This Video

  Code Used in This Video

  Reference	Timestamp	Code
  Class definition	2:10	Class PackageName.ClassName Extends EnsLib.HL7.SearchTable {}
  XData for search tables	2:37	XData SearchSpec [ XMLNamespace = "http://www.intersystems.com/EnsSearchTable" ] {}
  Item definition	3:00	<Item DocType="" PropName="" >[Segment:field_number]</Item>
  ObjectScript comment	3:41	<!—your comment here -->
• What's Next?

  What's Next?
  • Learn more about defining search tables for other types of documents, such as X12 or XML (documentation, 15m).
  • Get more practice searching messages using the Message Viewer (online course, 1h 30m).

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