The BHS segment defines the start of a batch.
SEQ |
LEN |
DT |
OPT |
RP/# |
TBL# |
ITEM # |
ELEMENT NAME |
1 |
1 |
ST |
R |
00081 |
Batch Field Separator |
||
2 |
3 |
ST |
R |
00082 |
Batch Encoding Characters |
||
3 |
15 |
ST |
O |
00083 |
Batch Sending Application |
||
4 |
20 |
ST |
O |
00084 |
Batch Sending Facility |
||
5 |
15 |
ST |
O |
00085 |
Batch Receiving Application |
||
6 |
20 |
ST |
O |
00086 |
Batch Receiving Facility |
||
7 |
26 |
TS |
O |
00087 |
Batch Creation Date/Time |
||
8 |
40 |
ST |
O |
00088 |
Batch Security |
||
9 |
20 |
ST |
O |
00089 |
Batch Name/ID/Type |
||
10 |
80 |
ST |
O |
00090 |
Batch Comment |
||
11 |
20 |
ST |
O |
00091 |
Batch Control ID |
||
12 |
20 |
ST |
O |
00092 |
Reference Batch Control ID |
2.24.13.0 BHS field definition
Definition: This field contains the separator between the segment ID and the first real field, BHS-2-batch encoding characters. As such it serves as the separator and defines the character to be used as a separator for the rest of the message. Recommended value is |,(ASCII 124).
Definition:. This field contains the four characters in the following order: the component separator, reptition separator, escape characters, and subcomponent separator. Recommended values are ^~\&, (ASCII 94, 126, 92, and 38, respectively. See Section 2.7, "MESSAGE DELIMITERS."
Definition: This field uniquely identifies the sending application among all other applications within the network enterprise. The network enterprise consists of all those applications that participate in the exchange of HL7 messages within the enterprise. Entirely site-defined.
Definition: This field contains the address of one of several occurrences of the same application within the sending system. Absent other considerations, the Medicare Provider ID might be used with an appropriate sub-identifier in the second component. Entirely user-defined.
Definition: This field uniquely identifies the receiving applications among all other applications within the network enterprise. The network enterprise consists of all those applications that participate in the exchange of HL7 messages within the enterprise. Entirely site-defined.
Definition: This field identifies the receiving application among multiple identical instances of the application running on behalf of different organizations. See comments BSH-4-batch sending facility. Entirely site-defined.
Definition: This field contains the date/time that the sending system created the message. If the time zone is specified, it will be used throughout the message as the default time zone.
Definition: In some applications of HL7, this field is used to implement security features. Its use is not yet further specified.
Definition: This field can be used by the application processing the batch. It can have extra components if needed.
Definition: This field is a comment field that is not further defined in the HL7 protocol.
Definition: This field is used to uniquely identify a particular batch. It can be echoed back in BHS-12-reference batch control ID if an answering batch is needed.
Definition: This field contains the value of BHS-11-batch control ID when this batch was originally transmitted. Not present if this batch is being sent for the first time. See definition for BHS-11-batch control ID.