Testing HL7 Messages

Question

I am in the process of implementing an HL7 Module in our EMR, but I am confused as how to test the messages. I was looking at LabCorp and Surescripts and was unable to find a te

Answer 1

I am not sure of the details of your module, however we use Mirth reading sample messages from an FTP server and pushing them through an LLP connector (or XML) to our software as required. This allows us to have a variety of data "sets" and various malformed messages to test against in a reproducible way. In fact we can process 100,000's of messages an hour It also simulates a "real" environment so that we can do load testing.