USAHerds: Brucellisis Abortus Card
- Cathy Allison
Message Setup for USAHerds B Abortus Card (SOAP Post)
Message Profile (MSH)
- To report to NAHLN: Username, Password, and Destination URL is required.
- Failure Email should go to a VetView user with admin privileges who is able to monitor the messages.
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 (left blank in this example.)
Patient PV1
Role ROL1
ROL13/PL6 Person Location Type
This setting is not used for B. Abortus results since the tests are tracked back to performing clinics.
Next of Kin NK1
Patient Identifier PID3
The required PID fields for Brucellus Abortus include Animal ID, DOB, Sex, and Species.
Alternate Identifiers should be disabled.
PID.38 and OBX are not currently used.
Specimen SPM
Required fields are Placer Assigned Identifier (animal ID), the Specimen ID, the Specimen Sampled date, and the Accession Released date.
Specimen Type is automatically included. Serum is the only approved specimen type for the Card test.
Specimen Setup
Only Serum is allowed as the specimen for this test.
Ensure that the appropriate SNOMED codes are in the Specimen Setup for correct matching.
Test Setup - Messaging Definition
In addition to the settings on the Job and Interface for NAHLN, you will need to add the Electronic Messaging Setup for each test that will report (disease name) to USA Herds.
Message Profile Name
Choose the profile name you created under the Job and Interface Settings above.
OCR.4 Placer Group Number
When selecting Reference Number Authority, please ensure that there is a Reference Number included in the header of each accession for this test.
OBX.5 Observation Value and OBX.8 Result Interpretation
This value should be the result name that holds the final results of this test. POS/NEG are the only allowed results.
