Google is shutting down the QPX Express API for airfare data

Re:Google is shutting down the QPX Express API for airfare data by tyingq on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @05:09PM (#15596607)

Didn't like OTA[1], eh?

I don't know that other industries are much better though. Ask a healthcare IT person about HL7.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenTravel_Alliance

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Re:Google is shutting down the QPX Express API for airfare data by snuxoll on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @10:46PM (#15598499)

FUCK HL7! Holy shit, I’ll never get the time back I spent implementing our standard HL7 data extractor and all the other software needed to get that into our billing system. Our poor EDI team has the worst of it though, they’re the ones responsible for mapping all the edge cases various EMR’s (and their per-hospital customizations) into our standard formats.

HL7 claims to be a standard, but it’s a hell of a lot closer to JSON in terms of standardization (that is, a serialization format) than say ANSI X12 (an ugly but generally standard data interchange system).

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Re:Google is shutting down the QPX Express API for airfare data by SmirkingRevenge on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @05:27PM (#15596751)

> Ask a healthcare IT person about HL7.

Been there, done that. Never again!

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Re:Google is shutting down the QPX Express API for airfare data by cwilkes on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @03:53AM (#15599477)

I liked to say “HL7, standard?” As more of a question.

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