hl7receiver (Alpha)

Node package to receive HL7 packets

Installation

install via NPM:

npm install hl7receiver

Usage

Initializing:

var Receiver = require('hl7receiver');
var receiver = new Receiver();

Option 1: Default(Port: 1337)

/// Default initialization
receiver.initialize();

Option 2: User defined configuration

/// User defined
/// options is a JSON object which can be used for Listener customization
receiver.initialize(options);

/// Example
receiver.initialize({
  port: 1337,
  encoding: 'utf8',
  emitRawMessage: false
});

Option 3: Listener pool

/// User defined
/// options is an array where one can define multiple listeners
receiver.initialize(optionsArray);

/// Example
receiver.initialize([{
  port: 1337,
  encoding: 'utf8',
  emitRawMessage: false
}, {
  port: 1338,
  encoding: 'utf8',
  emitRawMessage: false
});

Events

Receiving message in hl7js format:

/// Basic Parsing
receiver.on('hl7', function (err, hl7Message) {
    //console.log(err);
    //console.log(hl7Message);

    if (!err) {
        /// Reading patient name
        console.log('Patient name: ', hl7Message.segments[1][5]);
    }
});

Receiving message in raw format:

/// Reading raw data
receiver.on('data', function (err, rawData) {
    console.log(rawData);
});

Contributions

Contributions are welcome

Issues

Please file your issues here: