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7.3 Manufacturer Specific Records (MSR)
Newly introduced functions will use the MSRs specified in [7] – the use of specific fields for
cobas c 111 instruments is outlined below.
The collection of Manufacturer Specific Records bases on the standards, specified below:
1. Health Level 7, version 2.4 (HL7v2.4), chapter 13.
2. NCCLS standards AUTO3 “Laboratory Automation: Communications with Automated Clinical La-
boratory Systems, Instruments, Devices, and Information Systems”.
Please refer to these documents for any additional details.
Data flows and messages
• The data flows based on concepts and definitions from the NCCLS standards
AUTO3.
• The messages are described in detail in the HL7v2.4 and NCCLS-AUTO3 standards.
• The message and event identifiers send with the MSH-9 segment-field “Message
type” of HL7 should be sent with the field 7.1.11 “Comment or Special Instructions”
of Header.
7.3.1 Reagent Disk Loading
Request or send information from and to the other device. It is sent by the host as inquiry or
by the analyzer as response to an inquiry. Uses the INR / INU commands.
7.3.1.1 Automated equipment inventory request (INR - event
U06)
General: This message is used to request information about inventory items from one appli-
cation to another (e.g., Laboratory Automation System to automated equipment). The equip-
ment specified in the EQU segment should respond with the information about inventory
item requested in the INV segment (or all items).
cobas c 111 instrument: The message will trigger an upload of the reagent disk status. For
specific queries only the field 5 of the INV segment “Container Carrier Identifier” is
accepted.
INR^U06 Inventory Request Message
H Message Header
M|1|EQU Equipment Detail
M|1|INV Inventory Detail ( query for reagent disk only )
L
7.3.1.2 Automated equipment inventory update (INU - event
U05)
This message is used to send information about inventory items from one application to an-
other (e.g., automated Equipment to a Laboratory Automation System).