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HL7 / v2-to-fhir

This repository supports tools and content for the V2 to FHIR project.
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Please provide instructions #32

Closed bluepuma77 closed 4 years ago

bluepuma77 commented 4 years ago

It would be great if you could provide some documentation.

How to setup, how to run, how to convert a v2 message to fhir.

hbuitendijk commented 4 years ago

Can you provide more background on what you meant? This IG provides the guidance on what in HL7 v2 is mapped to what in FHIR R4. Tools that actually map are outside the scope of this IG and would take this IG content as the knowledge input to then perform the conversion of an actual v2 message to an actual FHIR set of resources.

bluepuma77 commented 4 years ago

My background is that I am a web developer and I want to make HL7v2 messages more easily digestible for me, like convert it to FHIR. I searched Github for HL7v2 and found this repository which seems to include code. My assumption was there is a HL7v2-FHIR message converter included which I could use like var fhir = parseHL7v2(msg_v2);.

"This repository supports tools and content for the V2 to FHIR project."

Two more sentences would be great to explain what it is, how the architecture looks like and what it does. Which one is the bigger project?

hbuitendijk commented 4 years ago

The tools and content included are strictly to define the mappings, e.g., the original .csv files, the explanations/documentation, and the tools to convert the .csv files to .fsh/.json/.xml/.turtle into a ConceptMap expression. In the future it may have tools to express them in FHIR Mapping language. But that it is where it stops. If you want to convert an actual v2 message to a FHIR construct, you will either need to create your own tools, or you use tools being build. But those are all developed/maintained outside this environment.