How to identify devices with HL7?

Question

I am looking for HL7 messages by which I can identify the vendor and type of devices I have in my network (e.g. Medlink - Xray, Alaris - IV pump).

Are there any specific messages I should be looking at to achieve this?
Are the PRT segment and OBX-18 the relevant sources of information?

Answer 1

If would be much easier to answer if you could post a sample message that you have to deal with. But as a general practice you can follow below steps. You can use a application like HL7 soup to decode your HL7 messages. Please refer the below screenshot.

• All the details related to the sender is encoded in MSH segment.