ASF Messaging Guide

NAHLN Certificate from Test URL 9-20-2018

(HL7 Post - Auth Token)

VetView 3.X series

Example Message Profile for ASF (HL7)

• To report to the NAHLN: Username, Password, and Certificate

• or Authentication Token are required
• Failure Email should forward to someone who has VetView admin privileges and can monitor these messages for issues
• The Schema Definition is not required, but if present the API will validate the message before posting it to the NAHLN website.

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Message Type: NAHLN OPU_R25 - HL7

• MSH.3 Sending Application is your Laboratories OID. OID Registry
• MSH.4 Sending Facility is your Laboratories Premise ID
• MSH 5 & 6 are NAHLN's information.
• Other values will vary depending on your lab's requirements

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Patient PV1

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OBX 

This may not be used in your lab.

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Role ROL1

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Role ROL2

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ROL3 and ROL4 are not used in this example.

Next of Kin NK1

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Patient Identifier PID3

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Specimen SPM

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Specimen Settings

NALHN only allows two specimen types for

ASF testing. Ensure that the appropriate SNOMED code is in the specimen setup.  (Common Setup Data > Specimen Setup.)

These codes are permanent and only need to be set once per specimen. 

• Tonsil: Tissue specimen from tonsil (specimen) Code: 811000009103
• Whole Blood Code: 258580003

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Test Setup - Messaging Profile

Messaging profile must be set up for each test in your lab system that will be reported for this disease.

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Choose the profile you had defined under the Job and Interface Setting for this test.

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• OCR.4 When a Reference Number Authority is selected, please include a reference number in the accession header for each accession.

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• OBR.31 Setup up a test catalog question that is restricted to a value list of acceptable reasons for submission (defined under Laboratory Setup > Value List Setup.)

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• OBX.5 This value should be the result name that holds the CT value in test setup

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• OBX.8 This value should be the result name that holds the interpretation in test setup. This should be restricted to a value list with only the NAHLN approved interpretation results (NDET). 

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