ASTM E1381 Transmission Mode

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Serial Connector

The Serial Connector enables Mirth® Connect to send and receive data over serial communication ports, such as those compliant with the RS-232 standards. Any installed transmission mode may be used in conjunction with the connectors, including a raw serial mode, MLLP, or the ASTM E1381 transmission mode. Options are available to select the port to connect to, the baud rate, the parity, and much more, enabling for fully customizable communication. This extension comes with both a Serial Listener source connector and a Serial Sender destination connector. Contact Us if you have any questions. Image of the serial connector configuration settings. Parent topic: Services and Extensions See also MLLP ASTM E1381

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ASTM E1394 Data Type

The ASTM E1394 data type for Mirth® Connect enables you to easily accept, parse, and transform messages following the ASTM E1394 data standard. As with other data types, an incoming message will be serialized into a simple XML format, and all the usual transformer steps may then be used to transform the message, or to convert it to or from a different data type. Several data type properties are also provided for specifying how messages should be converted to and from XML. A standard vocabulary for the ASTM E1394 data type is also included to help identify fields in the message template trees of a transformer. Contact Us if you have any questions. Image of ASTM E1394 channel settings. Parent topic: Services and Extensions

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TCP Transmission Modes

The transmission mode determines how to receive message data from the incoming byte stream, and how to send responses out. The following transmission modes are supported on the TCP Listener / TCP Sender (and Serial Listener / Sender extension): Basic TCP Transmission Mode MLLP Transmission Mode An additional transmission mode is made available via an extension: ASTM E1381 Transmission Mode Parent topic: TCP Listener

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About Mirth® Connect

Mirth® Connect translates message standards into a language your system understands. Like an interpreter who translates foreign languages into a language you understand, Mirth® Connect translates message standards into a language your system understands. Whenever a "foreign" system sends you a message, Mirth® Connect with its integration capabilities expedite the following: Filtering: Mirth® Connect reads message parameters and either passes the message on or stops it on its way to the transformation stage. Transformation: Mirth® Connect converts the incoming message standard to another standard, such as from Health Level Seven (HL7) to XML. Extraction: Mirth® Connect can pull data from and push data to a database. Routing: Mirth® Connect ensures that messages arrive at their assigned destinations. Users manage and develop channels (message pathways) using the interface known as the Administrator interface. Image of the Administrator Dashboard Parent topic: Introduction to Mirth Connec

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About Data Types

A data type tells a filter / transformer how to parse a certain format. The inbound data type serializes the incoming raw data into its internal representation. Then the filter / transformer executes, possibly modifying this internal representation, or even completely overwriting it with a different internal representation. Finally, the outbound data type takes this transformed data and deserializes it into the proper outbound format (the encoded data) . For example, the HL7 v2.x data type serializes ER7 data from this: into this: In this case, the internal representation is XML, because, for HL7 v2.x, the message object you use or manipulate in a filter / transformer is an E4X XML object. However not all data types use XML for their internal representation. The JSON data type uses JSON as you might expect, and the object you use in a filter / transformer is a regular JavaScript Object. The Raw data type does no serialization or deserialization, so its internal representation is identi

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Basic TCP Transmission Mode

This transmission mode allows you to specify basic TCP frame data (beginning and ending byte sequences). This allows the source connector to know when a message has been fully received. Destination connectors also use these sequences when sending data outbound. Item Name Default Value Description A Start of Message Bytes The bytes before the beginning of the actual message. Only valid hexadecimal characters (0-9, A-F) are allowed. B End of Message Bytes The bytes after the end of the actual message. Only valid hexadecimal characters (0-9, A-F) are allowed. If this is not specified, the only way a connector knows whether a message has been received is if the socket timeout is reached or if the remote side closes the socket. Byte Abbreviations Parent topic: TCP Listener

ASTM E1381 Transmission Mode

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