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Re:Hospitals lift curtain on prices, revealing giant swings ... by mulmen on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @02:18PM (#28619794)
Pipes are commonly used as delimiters in healthcare settings [1]. A quick quack suggests Python, Javascript and Perl ecosystems have HL7 parsing libraries available. I assume most languages do.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Level_7

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Re:Hospitals lift curtain on prices, revealing giant swings ... by batty_alex on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @02:30PM (#28619937)
Yep, probably an HL7 message. In the case of vertical bars, pretty sure it's HL7v2
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Re:Hospitals lift curtain on prices, revealing giant swings ... by KarlKemp on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @02:35PM (#28619991)
Except they usually call them “tubes”.

(Can’t find the original source, but it goes “Cant breathe? Put in a tube. Can't pee? Tube. Can't poop? Tube. Bleeding? Tube. Infection? Tube. Heart attack? Tube.”)

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