I am writing a program to read HL7 messages from a file and then load the data into a database. I have a program like this working in VB6, but want to use vb.net for this one.
What are the classes I would use? The message (file)? Each segment in the message(MSH, EVN, PID,...)? What would the methods be? My thoughts would be: Read the file, but then would that method execute the methods from the Patient Class?
When processing the record, there are a few entities like Patient, Visit, Observation, etc. Should they be classes,also? What methods would there be?
Thanks for any help!
David
What are the classes I would use? The message (file)? Each segment in the message(MSH, EVN, PID,...)? What would the methods be? My thoughts would be: Read the file, but then would that method execute the methods from the Patient Class?
When processing the record, there are a few entities like Patient, Visit, Observation, etc. Should they be classes,also? What methods would there be?
Thanks for any help!
David
