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Re:Building a patient monitoring system with Go and Vue in 3... by AzzieElbab on Saturday May 02, 2020 @10:40AM (#23052047)
I do not usually write posts like this, but I would never write an hl7 parser when things like hapi https://hapifhir.github.io/hapi-hl7v2/ exist. It is not just a parser, tones of fields in hl7 messages have not obvious meanings and implications
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Re:Building a patient monitoring system with Go and Vue in 3... by 3fe9a03ccd14ca5 on Saturday May 02, 2020 @11:28AM (#23052285)
That would have taken care of the message parsing, but the team would still need to do the concurrency work, get it debugged, and working. Also Java is not nearly as easy to deploy on-prem as Go.
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Re:Building a patient monitoring system with Go and Vue in 3... by AzzieElbab on Saturday May 02, 2020 @01:03PM (#23053119)
Interesting point about deployment. Though I haven't worked in orgs that would just let you drop an arbitrary binary on servers
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Re:Building a patient monitoring system with Go and Vue in 3... by snapetom on Saturday May 02, 2020 @05:59PM (#23055249)
I used https://github.com/deoxxa/hl7 at my last job to grab HL7 messages out of central processing system.

Regardless of the parser, I agree. Writing your own is dangerous. HL7 is deceptively complex. It leaves a lot of room for vendors and your hospital to customize. If you write your own, you can very easily end up with a system that is boxed in to your hospital's own, or even your department's own, implementation.

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