What does ZCD segment refer to in HL7 message? - hl7

Does anyone know what ZCD may refer to? It is described as a segment with a link back to PreManage for the patient!
Can anyone please provide more details?

The Z segments (segments those begin with the letter "Z") are custom segments. Those are not defined in specifications. They vary from vendor to vendor. Vendor may publish a document explaining usage of segment. Two connected parties should know in advance and decide the usage by mutual understanding.
As those are custom, and if there is no way to know what data they contain, it may be safe to neglect them hoping the sender have not put critical data in it.
Please refer to this:
Z-segments can be inserted anywhere in the HL7 message. A popular approach is to place the Z-segment within a group of segments that contain similar information, such as insurance. Z-segments are also often placed at the end of the message. The advantage of doing so is that this placement prevents systems configured to parse “standard” HL7 format from requiring any configuration modifications in order to process the message. The application simply reads the segments in the order expected and then extracts the data from the Z-segment (if needed) via parser modifications.
Working with unexpected Z-segments
Sometimes systems may send unexpected Z-segments, whether or not they were part of the original specifications. Even if you are not interested in the data in the Z-segment, you may still (depending on its location) need to take the segment into account while testing and developing your interface.

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A .net sdk/ api for doucment comparison (docx/pdf/pptx) with near ms-word functionalities

I'm trying to make a document comparison viewer for web browser that feels as same as Microsoft word's 'Track Changes' and 'Compare' (options available in Review Tab).
I am already using Aspose.Words to convert every file type to docx and compare two files which gives me a redline copy merged into one single document. What i want to get is the resulting document(s) in a side by side comparison on UI. Also i want to give the ability to do the basic:
Get a summary of changes made and able to navigate as to where to changes are made in the document.(Scroll to the position of change in the document, just like Review Pane in MS word)
Accept and Reject those changes and download the revised document.
Able to compare text as well as non text related changes.
I've looked for many 3rd party tools but always end up in a limitation surrounding them, to list a few
GroupDocs.Comparison - Gives navigation and auto scroll but in a
merged document not in side by side view. Also, does not gives a document but a set of images.
Draftable - Compares only text and style, no image/tagged file
objection insertion or deletion. No option to accept or reject
changes
ipdf-net - No option to accept or reject changes.
PrizmDocs Document Compare API - No navigation to where the change is made in the document. Also no side by side comparison.
Litera Compare: No side by side comparison.
Where i could such 3rd party SDK that would help me achieve my objective or is there any was i could overcome the limitations i am getting from the tolls I've looked at ? The main concern is to have a navigation/mapping of change made to its position in the document and ability accept or reject those changes.
GroupDocs.Comparison provides following features:
Accept or reject detected changes
Get comparison summary page
Get list of changes
Get changes coordinates
Customize style changes
Adjust comparison sensitivity
Text and image comparison
Learn more about all the supported features in developer guide. We are also investigating the possibility to implement side by side comparison of the documents. You'll be notified as there's any progress update.

Linked list in data flow diagram

Is this correct?
What i basically want to ask is that- Is it correct to consider a linked list as a data source.
What happens in this program is that a text files contents are loaded into memory in a linked list. Which does all the processing work and then when the program quits the linked lists are written to the file. In that case is this DFD correct?
What you are asking is rather a Data flow diagram, or also known as dynamic/event view of design.
This diagram tells how on the UI ,events will proceed.
What i basically want to ask is that- Is it correct to consider a
linked list as a data source.
Yes of course, Sometimes it is good to proceed with Link List. LL provides a simpler and faster way to move through nodes having various attributes of a specific entity.
What happens in this program is that a text files contents are loaded
into memory in a linked list.
Basically its not a good idea to store data as text,it increases parsing overhead.The Node values in LL are rather stored in binary format in such a way that when a program loads them, it can quickly link all the interconnected nodes.
Which does all the processing work and then when the program quits the
linked lists are written to the file.
Difficult to understand what you want to ask, but if you are asking who does processing work then obviously its your program who parses the data saved in file.Your program will also dump changes to file if you make any alteration in previous data.
In that case is this DFD correct?
Hard to tell, untill whole requirement is known..

Mahout recommendations with metadata related to preference

I was planning to write a recommender which treats preferences differently depending contextual information (time the preference was made, device used to make the recommendation, ...)
Within the Mahout in Action book and within the code examples shipped with Mahout I can't seem to find anything related. In some examples to there's metadata (a.k.a content) used to express user or item similarity - but that's not what I'm looking for.
I wonder if anyone already made an attempt to do sth similar with Mahout?
Edit:
A practical example could be that the current session is done on a mobile device and this should cause a push up (rating*1.1) for all preferences tracked on mobile devices and a drop for preferences tracked differently (rating*0.9).
...
Another example could be that some ratings are collected implicit and others explicit. How would I be able to keep track of this fact without "coding" that directly into the tracked value and how would I be able to use that information when calculating the scores?
I would say one approach is to use the Rescorer class to do just that, but my guess is that this is what you are referring to when you say that's not what you are looking for.
Another approach would be to pre-process the entire data you have to adjust the preferences according to your needs, before using Mahout to generate recommendations.
If you provide some more detail on how you expect to use your data to modify preferences, people here would be able to help even further.

Maestro Credit Card: Pulling information from MSR dump (Any language)

We have a system that allows you to scan your credit card on a MSR and from the dump I pull the needed fields such as name/cc/exp. Recently we had to add globalized credit cards to this. For almost all of the card provided, I was able to still pull the information since they seemed to all follow a standard. One exception however was a Maestro card. The format is completely different, and since I neither have one to verify actual number on card vs dumped data, nore have access to any other dumps, it's very hard for me to figure out the correct format of these. I also did some google searching with little luck of extracting data from a MSR dump.
Unlike almost all other cards, track one does not start with "%B" and Track two does not start with ";". Both tracks do appear to end with "?" (based off analyzing the whole dump, not by track). Track 3 does appear to be empty, which is normal.
The whole dump seems to lack any name data and is basically in the format of:
###=###?
###=###=###==#=###?
Note that besides the single #, where I had 3 it was variable length.
Again I only had access to one single dump, which for obvious reason I cannot post here.
If anyone has some example code in any language, or can link me to some help, I'd really appreciate it.
Thanks in advance,
Anthony
Is it possible that the card you are testing is faulty or simply a non standard card that is generally not supported? try to check track data from other maestro cards before assuming your system is at fault.
I say this because ISO 7813, the governing standard for transaction cards is pretty clear regarding the fact that track 2 data begins with start sentinel ";" and that all valid bank cards have a format code "B" following the start sentinel "%" in track 1.
check the standard carefully and make sure your system is parsing correctly:
http://www.gae.ucm.es/~padilla/extrawork/tracks.html

What is the HL7 ZDS segment used for?

My very old HL7 parser has just hit a snag as it is now getting some messages with a ZDS segment present. It was easy to fix by adding a ZDS object to my parser, but I am trying to find out what it is used for. Googling hasn't helped much. This is a sample
ZDS|PERFORM|p0001236^PATEL^ATEST^^^^^^HHB_INOP_PRSNL^^^^OTHER|20100714101800|CD:653
ZDS|TRANSCRIBE|p0001236^PATEL^ATEST^^^^^^HHB_INOP_PRSNL^^^^OTHER|20100714101800|CD:653
ZDS|SIGN|p0001236^PATEL^ATEST^^^^^^HHB_INOP_PRSNL^^^^OTHER|20100714101912|CD:653
So, I'm interested in what each field is though looking at this sample data, it seems I don't lose much by just dropping the whole segment.
In HL7, all segments that begin with the letter Z are considered to be custom and are not defined further by the HL7 standard. You will need to find out what system is responsible for generating these ZDS segments and ask the owners of that system to provide you their specification.
As Scott said, "Z" segments are custom and can vary from vendor to vendor. In the Cerner realm, however, ZDS segments are typically used for "Document Succession" purposes -- a means of document version tracking and synchronization between two supportive systems.
The ZDS segment is used to communicate document endorsement information (actions done or to be done) in Unsolicited Document Results. only a specific solution of Millennium use it, so if you don't need just ignore it.

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