Date:         Tue, 18 Jun 2002 08:38:30 +0200
Reply-To:     alte@uni-greifswald.de
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Dietrich Alte <alte@UNI-GREIFSWALD.DE>
Organization: Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald
Subject:      Re: HL7 parser for SAS
Comments: To: Tom Frenkel <taf2@NYU.EDU>
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Thanks Tom,

that is exactly what I was looking for.

Dietrich


Tom Frenkel wrote:
>
> Mr. Alte --
>
> About 6 years ago, when I worked at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center
> in New York, we designed a SAS parser for HL7 data.  Below are current
> links to the programs & documentation that constitute this project.
>
>         http://homepages.nyu.edu/~taf2/HL7-READ-ME.txt
>         http://homepages.nyu.edu/~taf2/HL7DOC.txt
>         http://homepages.nyu.edu/~taf2/HL7PARSE.txt
>         http://homepages.nyu.edu/~taf2/HL7DATA.txt
>         http://homepages.nyu.edu/~taf2/HL7LOAD.txt
>         http://homepages.nyu.edu/~taf2/HL7READ.txt
>
> Please note that I cannot guarantee that this code will work for you.
> (Nor, unfortunately, do I have much time to help you with it.) ...  but
> you are invited to make whatever use of it you can!  Good luck ... Best,
>
>         --Tom
>         Tom Frenkel <taf2@nyu.edu>
>         http://homepages.nyu.edu/~taf2
>
> On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Dietrich Alte wrote:
>
> > we are about to get data from our clinical laboratory in HL7 (Health
> > Level Seven, www.hl7.org) format. I must read them into a dbms
> > (MS-SQL-Server) and want to use SAS for it. A search in the sas-l
> > archives gives only very old and no longer existing url's. Has anybody
> > any experience with this kind of task?

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