EDI101 - Bridges Interfaces Exam Practice Questions and Answers

EDI101 - Bridges Interfaces Exam Practice Questions and Answers Does every HL7 message have to be encoded with the characters |^~& ? - Correct Answer ️️ -No, the encoding characters can be any printable character. Imagine that your message begins with MSH|^~&|. How would you encode the string "The result is positive & has a value of 2.7 x 10^3."? - Correct Answer ️️ -The result is positive T has a value of 2.7 x 10S3. Why is the NTE segment special? - Correct Answer ️️ -Context; its meaning depends on the segment it follows. What is the difference between receiving an empty field || and the delete sequence |""|? - Correct Answer ️️ -An empty field is ignored by the interface, whereas the delete character will delete information from the database, assuming the field in question supports the delete character. Aside from HL7 Version 2, name two other standards supported in Bridges? - Correct Answer ️️ -X12, FHIR, NCPDP, DICOM, and Direct. What is Bridges? - Correct Answer ️️ -Epic's interfacing application. It consists of both the interface infrastructure to build, send, receive, and file messages along with the tools and utilities to maintain those interfaces. What are stored in the Event Queue, Data Queue, and Control Queue? - Correct Answer ️️ -The Event Queue contains the information needed to build a message. Usually this is a patient ID, an encounter DAT, and the type of message to be built, amongst other information. The Data Queue contains the text of HL7 messages and additional metadata. The Control Queue is a to-do list of message numbers to send or file. Are messages ever manually deleted from the Data Queue? - Correct Answer ️️ -No, never. They are purged only by an automated purge job. What are two ways that interface messages are sent and received? - Correct Answer ️️ -TCP/IP with an interface engine is the most common communication m