HL7 SIU Message

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The HL7 SIU message notifies an auxiliary (or other similarly configured) application of changes to some facet of the filler application’s appointment schedule. There are 14 different trigger events for the SIU message, but they all use a common message format.

The fourteen SIU messages include:

SIU-S12 – Notification of new appointment booking
SIU-S13 – Notification of appointment rescheduling
SIU-S14 – Notification of appointment modification
SIU-S15 – Notification of appointment cancellation
SIU-S16 – Notification of appointment discontinuation
SIU-S17 – Notification of appointment deletion
SIU-S18 – Notification of addition of service/resource on appointment
SIU-S19 – Notification of modification of service/resource on appointment
SIU-S20 – Notification of cancellation of service/resource on appointment
SIU-S21 – Notification of discontinuation of service/resource on appointment
SIU-S22 – Notification of deletion of service/resource on appointment
SIU-S23 – Notification of blocked schedule time slot(s)
SIU-S24 – Notification of opened (“un-blocked”) schedule time slot(s)
SIU-S26 – Notification that patient did not show up for scheduled appointment

The segments and groups of segments in the SIU message are as follows, and apply for all trigger events:

SEGMENT/ GROUP	NAME	OPTIONAL/REPEATABLE?
MSH	Message header	Required
SCH	Schedule activity information	Required
NTE	Notes and comments	Optional, Repeatable
PatientGroup – Optional and repeatable group
PID	Patient identification	Required
PV1	Patient visit	Optional
PV2	Patient visit – additional info	Optional
OBX	Observation	Optional, Repeatable
DG1	Diagnosis	Optional, Repeatable
ResourceGroup – Repeatable group
RGS	Resource group	Required
ServiceGroup – Optional and repeatable group, part of ResourceGroup
AIS	Appointment information – service	Required
NTE-1	Notes and comments	Optional, Repeatable
GeneralGroup – Optional and repeatable group, part of ResourceGroup
AIG	Appointment information – General resource	Required
NTE-2	Notes and comments	Optional, Repeatable
LocationGroup – Optional and repeatable group, part of ResourceGroup
AIL	Appointment information – Location resource	Required
NTE-3	Notes and comments	Optional, Repeatable
PersonnelGroup – Optional and Repeatable, part of ResourceGroup
AIP	Appointment information – Personnel resource	Required
NTE-4	Notes and comments	Optional, Repeatable

In HL7 pipe and hat format, the SIU-S14 message would look like this:

MSH|^~\&|GPMS|CTX||MED2000|200803060953||SIU^S14|20080306953450|P|2.3||||||||

SCH|00331839401|||||58||HLCK^HEALTHCHECK ANY AGE|20|MIN|^^^200803061000

|||||JOHN||||VALERIE|||||ARRIVED|

PID|1||489671|0|SMITH^MICHAEL^||20080205|F|||176215TH STREET^HOUSTON^TX^77306||(832)795-

8259|||S|||999999999||||||||||||

PV1|1|O|||||HHR^NGUYENSUSAN MD|^||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||

RGS|1|||

AIL|1||HHR^FPCS NGUYEN, MD||||||||||

NTE|1||1MONTH HLCK^^|

AIP|1||PBN^LISAPORTER|50|||||||||

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