parser/README.md

## About Parse-Edi

**parse-edi** is an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) parser developed at Vanderbilt University Medical Center during Khanhly Nguyen's summer internship 2019. Built in a healthcare setting, the parser focuses (for now) on x12 claims (837) and remittances (835)

This code is intended to extract x12 837 and 835 and format them into portable and human readable format (JSON). This allows the claims to be stored in document data stores such as Mongodb, couchdb or databases that have support for JSON like PostgreSQL
We wrote this toolkit to be used in both command like or as a library in your code

## Installation

    pip install git+https://hiplab.mc.vanderbilt.edu/git/lab/parse-edi.git



## Usage 

**Commandline :**

        
        python edi --config <path> --folder <path> --store <[mongo|disk|couch]> --<db|path]> <id|path>

        with :
            --scope     <claims|remits>
            --config    path of the x12 to be parsed i.e it could be 835, or 837
            --folder    location of the files (they must be decompressed)
            --store     data store could be disk, mongodb, couchdb
            --db|path    name of the folder to store the output or the database name
    
**Embedded in Code   :**

Use **parse-edi** within your code base as a library and handle storing data in a data store of choice

    import edi.parser
    import json
    import os


    ROOT = 'data'
    CLAIMS_FOLDER = os.sep.join([ROOT,'837'])   #-- data/837    contains all 837 formatted files
    CONFIG_FOLDER = os.sep.join([ROOT,'config'])#-- data/config contains 837.json or 835.json
    
    
    files       = os.listdir(CLAIMS_FOLDER)
    filename    = os.sep.join([CLAIM_FOLDER,files[0]]) #-- selecting the first file in the folder (it's an example)
    conf        = json.loads(open( os.sep.join([CONFIG_FOLDER,'837.json']) ).read())
    info        = edi.parser.get_content(file,conf) #-- array of objects claims/remits

## Credits


* [Khanhly Nguyen] (<khanhly.t.nguyen@gmail.com>)
* [Gaylon Stanley] (<gaylon.stanley@vanderbilt.edu>)
* [Cheng Gao] (<cheng.gao@vanderbilt.edu>)
* [Brad Malin] (brad.malin@vanderbilt.edu)
* [Steve L. Nyemba] (<steve.l.nyemba@vanderbilt.edu>)