BHS segment
The BHS segment defines the start of a batch. 2.15.2.0 BHS field definitions 2.15.2.1 BHS-1 Batch Field Separator (ST) 00081 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).
The shape of one line
required optional
BHS-2 and its value arrives as BHS-1, so the receiver stores Batch Encoding Characters as Batch Field Separator.This page carries the BHS field table as published and nothing beyond it. The field notes, vendor behaviour, FHIR mapping and parsing guidance that thePID page has are still to be written for BHS.
Every field
| SEQ | LEN | DT | OPT | RP/# | TBL# | ITEM# | Element name | Cardinality |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BHS-1 | 1 | ST | R | 00081 | Batch Field Separator | 1..1 | ||
| BHS-2 | 3 | ST | R | 00082 | Batch Encoding Characters | 1..1 | ||
| 227 | HD | O | 00083 | Batch Sending Application | 0..1 | |||
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| 227 | HD | O | 00084 | Batch Sending Facility | 0..1 | |||
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| 227 | HD | O | 00085 | Batch Receiving Application | 0..1 | |||
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| 227 | HD | O | 00086 | Batch Receiving Facility | 0..1 | |||
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| 26 | TS | O | 00087 | Batch Creation Date/Time | 0..1 | |||
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| BHS-8 | 40 | ST | O | 00088 | Batch Security | 0..1 | ||
| BHS-9 | 20 | ST | O | 00089 | Batch Name/ID/Type | 0..1 | ||
| BHS-10 | 80 | ST | O | 00090 | Batch Comment | 0..1 | ||
| BHS-11 | 20 | ST | O | 00091 | Batch Control ID | 0..1 | ||
| BHS-12 | 20 | ST | O | 00092 | Reference Batch Control ID | 0..1 | ||
Related
No message structure in v2.5.1 carries BHS, and no other segment is linked to it here. The standard defines the segment on its own.