Stream: v2 to FHIR
Topic: Conversion from V2 to FHIR
sai charan (Oct 29 2018 at 12:45):
Hi All,
I am using mirth connect to convert the V2 messages to FHIR resources. For each type of message i have to do mappings. Is there any common implementation to convert any type of HL7 V2 to FHIR resources.
Thank You,
Nick Hatt (Oct 29 2018 at 13:45):
I know of some open source Mirth-specific projects that may give you a starting point. https://github.com/nextgenhealthcare/fhir-example-channels https://github.com/clinical-meteor/meteor-on-fhir/tree/master/mirth-channels <- @Abigail Watson @Nick Rupley are both on FHIR chat.
It's easy to miss but most FHIR structure definitions ship with as complete as possible HL7v2 bindings: http://build.fhir.org/patient-mappings.html. They are defined as code, so that may help as a starting point.
sai charan (Oct 30 2018 at 04:49):
Hi @Nick Hatt I imported the channel and choose source connector as channel reader and destination connector as fhir sender http://www.mirthcorp.com/community/wiki/display/mirth/HL7+v2.x+to+FHIR+Conversions . When i send message the source connector is receiving and transforming it into patient resource. I am getting the empty resource at the destination. I have to do mappings or is any other method. If i do mappings it is difficult to map all the variables in fhir resource builder(FHIR SENDER).
Thank You,
Nick Hatt (Oct 30 2018 at 12:03):
Broadly speaking, there is no silver bullet for mapping v2 -> FHIR, so you should expect to have to do mappings yourself, or at least validate that a base set of mappings works with each new HL7v2 feed you connect.
sai charan (Nov 13 2018 at 05:04):
@Nick Hatt Hi, i am following the Convert HL7 to FHIR Patient - Example 2 in http://www.mirthcorp.com/community/wiki/display/mirth/HL7+v2.x+to+FHIR+Conversions .Actually the implementation is given for converting patient resource from an HL7 message . I am using the same structured format for remaining resources encounter,observation...Will it work.
xiao dingding (Apr 23 2019 at 07:47):
Hi all, I have followed the conversion with mirth. I know a little about FHIR and have checked mappings on http://hl7.org/fhir/STU3/patient-mappings.html#v2 . But I have no idea what to do next if I want to convert HL7 v2 to FHIR. I am wondering is there any tutorial for beginner to understand the conversion in the code level. I really hope that I can program it by myself. Thank you very much for your help.
Brendan Keeler (Apr 26 2019 at 05:19):
It's something that's in progress. The community has a connectathon track for it in Montreal next month
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