## 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 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


## Installation

    pip install git+https://hiplab.mc.vanderbilt.edu/git/steve/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>
* Steve L. Nyemba <steve.l.nyemba@vanderbilt.edu>