Support for Vista OS
The setup program now supports installing on all versions of the Vista operating system, Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows 98.
Identify Fields by Pointing at them
Point to a field and see not just the name and description of the field. Also, you have the option to define what the content of the field means to your organization.
For example, the user below is pointing at the letter 'E' in the PV1 segment. The ToolTip shows that this field is PV1-2, Patient Class, and the value "E" indicates that this is an ED Patient. Admittedly that's a simply example, but you get the idea:
Determine What Fields are Used
Sometimes you need to know what fields are being used by an interface or what fields an external system is sending to out. Interface Explorer can easily and quickly provide that information, whether your sample contains one HL7 message or 100,000 messages:
Determine the Unique Values that a Field can Contain
How can you tell what message types come out of an interface and how often they occur? The Determine All Unique Field Values tool tells you. Likewise, you can easily determine all the unique transcriptionists, physicians, ordered lab tests, etc.
TCP/IP Server - Receive From and Send To External Systems
You can easily configure Interface Explorer to act as either a TCP/IP client or server. This allows you to send test or production data to external systems or receive HL7 messages from external systems. This can be extremely useful when writing and debugging interfaces - you can see the messages exactly as they appear to the intended external systems.
FTP HL7 Files Directly into Interface Explorer
You can load HL7 files into Interface Explorer using FTP Get as easily as you load files using the standard File | Open.
Support for FTP servers using ports other than 21
You can now connect to FTP servers that use ports other than the standard port 21 for communications. If the FTP server at 127.0.0.1 used port 1202, you would connect to the FTP server like this:
Or, if the FTP server had a hostname of EnsembleProd and used port 15005, you would connect to the FTP server like this: