Find the messages that matter
Every message in view, broken into named fields, with search and filters across the whole feed.
Your Complete HL7 Workspace
The message list, the message you picked as it arrived, and the same message broken into named fields, all on one screen.
- The raw message with syntax colors; point at any part to see which field it is
- Fields as a tree or a table, with names, and data types for the message’s own HL7 version, 2.1 to 2.8.1
- Add fields as columns, sort the whole tab by any built-in column, jump to any page, export selected rows to CSV
- A workspace per tab, and your tabs back when you restart
Search the Whole Feed
Type a word, press Enter, and the list narrows to every message that contains it, even across a feed of 250,000 messages like this one.
- Partial words, any case, anywhere in the message
- Each search becomes a chip, highlighted in its own color
- Narrow by message type, or search only the selected message
- Filter on any value with a right-click, or exclude values from Unique Values
Advanced Search
Ask questions of particular fields: troponin results for patients in the ICU, admissions with no attending doctor, any combination of field values, partial values, and present or missing fields.
- Conditions on any segment, field and component
- Exists and Not Exists, exact values, or values containing the text
- Groups combined with AND or OR
- Values picked from your own messages, and saved queries
Explore Unique Values
See every distinct value a field holds and how often it occurs, then filter the list to the ones you care about.
- Counts and shares for every value, respecting your current filters
- A Where condition: test names only where OBX-8 is H
- A filter box for finding one value among thousands
- Show only or exclude the values you check; copy or export to CSV
See what a feed really sends
Profile a feed, watch its volume, look up the standard, and check the feed against its own past.
HL7 Statistics Updated in 1.0.68
Know what a feed contains before you build against it: message types, senders, segments and volume, on one screen.
- Message types and sending facilities, with case and spacing variants of a facility counted as one
- Click types and facilities to narrow the whole window to them
- Segment usage with repeat counts
- Volume by hour, with empty hours marked and counted
- Filter the message list to the selection, or export it all to CSV
HL7 Event Timeline Updated in 1.0.68
Message volume hour by hour, so an outage or a backlog stands out at a glance.
- All messages, plus a line for each message type you add
- Every line narrowed to one sending facility
- Hours with no messages marked in red and counted
- Zoom in on an incident; copy or save the chart with its title and legend
HL7 Lookup New in 1.0.68
A built-in HL7 v2 reference: every segment, field, data type, table and trigger event, for versions 2.1 to 2.8.1.
- One search across every version, with suggestions as you type
- Right-click a segment, field or component of a message to open it in that message’s version
- How a field was defined in each version
- Works offline
Structure Analysis & Feed Definitions
Measure the shape of the messages you actually received, keep it as a baseline, and check any later delivery against it.
- HL7 grammar notation for each message type, from your own messages
- How often each segment, field and component is filled in
- Definitions you mark Required, Optional or Ignore
- A new feed checked against its baseline, with a PDF or CSV report
Compare Messages
Put two messages side by side and see every difference, field by field.
- Changed, added and missing fields marked in color
- Field names alongside positions
- Step from one difference to the next
- Export the comparison as text or HTML
Fix messages and de-identify them
Correct messages where you read them, and de-identify a feed before it leaves your hands.
Remove PHI Before You Share
Replace PHI with realistic substitutes, so a feed can be shared for troubleshooting, testing or vendor support.
- Names, identifiers, dates of birth, addresses and phone numbers replaced
- Identifiers keep their format: length, punctuation and leading zeros
- Each patient stays consistent across the whole feed
- Notes and custom Z-segments cleaned of the identifiers the message declares
- One message, or every message in the tab
Edit HL7 Messages in Place
Fix, build and reshape messages without copying them into a text editor.
- Change a field, component or sub-component, in one message or all of them
- Add, duplicate and delete field repetitions, with components named for the field’s data type
- Duplicate and delete segments
- Field numbers never shift, and each message’s own delimiters are respected
Work with the systems around you
Send and receive over MLLP, reach files on your servers, and read the documents messages carry.
Send, Receive & Query over MLLP
Test an interface end to end: send messages, receive them, and run query and response exchanges.
- Send the selected message, all of them, or just your filtered set
- Each message waits for its acknowledgment, with retry and timeout
- Query and response on one connection, with the control ID checked
- Receive as an MLLP listener, with acknowledgments sent automatically
- Connection profiles for the systems you use
Work with Remote Files
Reach messages where they live: browse, download and save over SFTP, FTP or FTPS without leaving the app.
- Saved connections, with passwords encrypted for your Windows account
- Switch servers without disconnecting first
- Download several files at once, compressed files included
- Save back to the server, and reopen recent folders
View Embedded PDF & RTF Documents
Open the reports that messages carry, right where you are reading them.
- A View PDF or View RTF button beside the value that holds the document
- PDF pages with zoom, and Save PDF...
- RTF documents with Copy, Save... and Word Wrap
Activity Timeline
Your searches, filters, edits and saves, in order, and a way back to them.
- Imports, searches, filters, edits and saves recorded as you work
- Double-click, or right-click and Replay, to return to an entry
- Closed tabs reopened from their files, with your steps replayed
- About 30 days of history
The details that make daily work easier
Light & dark themes
Work in the theme that suits you. See the Light theme.
Updates that reopen your tabs
New versions install in a few clicks, and with Reopen files from last session on (the default), your tabs are back when HL7 Pulse restarts.
Paste from the clipboard
Copy a message from an engine log or an email and press Ctrl+V in an empty tab to open it.
Export to CSV
Take selected message rows, Unique Values or HL7 Statistics to a spreadsheet.
Whole folders at once
Drag in a folder and every .hl7, .txt, .log, .dat and .gz file inside it is read, subfolders included.
Recent files & folders
Get back to the files and folders you used, local or remote, from the File menu.
Screens show HL7 Pulse 1.0.68 with synthetic data; every name, identifier and facility in them is invented. See the documentation for more detail.