From fe3b7b5d33e47ee85396fdfe12099a7631b696d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steve Nyemba Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2019 01:55:52 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] more documentation --- README.md | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 33a34dc..843444e 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -2,9 +2,8 @@ **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 process and parse healthcare x12 837 (claims) and x12 835 (remittances) into human readable JSON format. -The claims/outpout can be forwarded to a NoSQL Data store like couchdb and mongodb - +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