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Re:Hospitals lift curtain on prices, revealing giant swings ... by batty_alex on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @02:34PM (#28619979)
> But the price list is a text file delimited by pipes (vertical bars... |) which just seems unnecessary. They also do nothing to define the variables or column names they use...so that's nice.

They likely just exported the prices as HL7 from their EHR system and used Excel's built-in delimiter support, then called it a day

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Re:Hospitals lift curtain on prices, revealing giant swings ... by lostlogin on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @04:16PM (#28621190)
> HL7

And there is the problem.

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