What does HL7Spy do, and why do you need it?
HL7Spy is a tool for interface developers and maintainers. It will substantially reduce the time it takes you to create and debug HL7 2.x interfaces by providing you with a statistical analysis of the segments, fields, component, and sub-components within a set of HL7 2.x transactions (using 1,000,000 messages for analysis not uncommon).
HL7Spy will provide you with critical information about the the message exchange and help you find values that fall outside a given interface specification.
Here some examples of the types of questions HL7Spy can answer about a set of HL7 2.x transactions:
- “What are the values being transmitted for Order Status (ORC-5), and what are the distributions for each value?”
- “How large is the largest message in the stream?”
- “Are there any ORM messages where ORC-3 is null?”
- “How often is patient sex (PID-8) filled in ADT^A08 messages?”
- “What are the maximum and minimum lengths of the patient identifier (PID-3.1)?”
- “Are there any patient encounters where the report status (OBR-25) incorrectly transitioned from ‘Final’ to ‘Preliminary’?”
Watch HL7Spy find the distribution of all values for MSH-9 for 100,000 messages in only 0.8 secs!
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- Load – quickly load files, from 1KB to 100MB and more. HL7Spy will load 100,000 messages in less than a couple of seconds! Additionally, HL7Spy will auto detect most file types, and allow you to specify the format of particularly unusual files. Zipped files can also be opened directly.
- View – see messages in an easy-to-read layout, with field names and values decoded according to the HL7 standard. There are also many additional viewing features, such as normalizing encoding characters for better readability, highlighting fields by name, and viewing only relevant fields for each message.
- Edit – edit message directly, or use the Segment Editor to deal with field locations and escape characters automatically. The editor includes all the features you’ve come to expect, such as full Undo and Redo.
- Hex Editor – view/edit the raw HL7 message bytes. Search for invalid characters within the message stream.
- Search – build complex queries against whole messages or particular fields.
- Sort – sort large message collections based on the fields important to you.
- Analyze – generate statistics showing the unique values in each field, and quickly drill down to the messages with interesting content.
- Report – generate, save and print reports on large groups of messages.
- Send – send messages over the network using MLLP. View ACKs and/or NACKs, change message character encoding, and message framing bytes.
- Receive – receive messages on an unlimited number of ports. Search, view, and analyze messages as they are being received.
- Save – save all or some of the messages out to new files, with whichever file format and encoding you need. Advanced save functions include the ability to merge files.
- Detect Character Encoding – character encodings are detected automatically, and multi-byte encodings (such as Japanese) are fully supported.
- Search HL7 Standard – search the HL7 standard, viewing segment, field and component names, and see any tables associated with a field.
- Validation – use C# to write sophisticated validation routines, well beyond the simple table validation available in other tools. For example, validate the proper exam states transitions, or verify patient names are not modified during an ORM, or ORU update. Anything is possible!
- Transformations – modify messages using HL7 defined classes and full intellisense. For example: pid.PatientName_05=”SMITH^JOHN^D” sets PID-5 within the message to SMITH^JOHN^D.
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$259- Upgrade from HL7Spy 3.x
- ** You MUST be the registered user **
Professional
$399- Single User Hardware License Key
Enterprise
$169 /user/year- Windows NT Domain License Key
- Minimum of 10 users
- Contact us at support@HL7Spy.com
* HL7Spy is licensed on a per user / per machine basis. The total number of licenses required is the greater number of: (1) the number of users accessing the software, and (2) the number of machines (physical, or virtual) HL7Spy is installed on, whichever is greater.
** Professional licenses are tied to the user’s email address and the Hardware ID of the computer. Licenses are NOT user transferable unless they are within 1 year of their activation date. One year of support and same version upgrades is included.
*** Enterprise licenses are tied to the customer’s Windows NT Domain. You require a license for each user that has access to HL7Spy.