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18.4.13 ADT/ACK - Bed Status Update (Event A20) (3.3.20)

Certain nursing/census applications need to be able to update the Patient Administration system's bed status. The following is the associated record layout:

Segment Cardinality Implement Status
ADT^A20^ADT_A20
MSH

Message Header

[1..1] SHALL
SFT

Software Segment

 
EVN

Event Type

[1..1] SHALL
NPU

Bed Status Update

[1..1] SHALL

 

ADT_A20

MSH-15 MSH-16 Immediate ACK Application Ack
Blank Blank - ADT^A20^ADT_A20
NE NE - -
AL, SU, ER NE ACK^A20^ACK -
NE AL, SU, ER - ACK^A20^ACK
AL, SU, ER AL, SU, ER ACK^A20^ACK ACK^A20^ACK
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