0. Check that you have the installer, the command below will display all the supported actions.

1. initialize the environment (one-time run), with database parameters. By default this will be using sqlite database

Note :
To use another database please visit data-transport page to learn about how to create an auth-file, it's a file with database access parameters.
The configuration file will live on $HOME/.healthcareio/config.json

2. Parse {x12} files stored in a folder. The output will be stored in a database specified upon initialization.

Note :
The data is stored in JSON format in the database specified in $HOME/.healthcareio/config.json
Once stored, it is possible to export them to a relational database supported by data-transport.

• Installed {x12} parser via pip (python 3+)
• Familiarity with terminal commands
• Have {x12} files in a folder
  Samples {x12} files can be found at https://x12.org/examples

• Plugins
  The plugins determine what elements need to be parsed for a given {x12} file, and thus determine relational structure
  If no plugins are specified, the default built-in are used
  It is possible to develop plugins (in python) for custom parsing or to extend the elements parsed by default.
• Parser versions
  Add data on existing database if using the same custom plugins across {x12} parser versions. As long as the custom plugins have not changed
  Do NOT add data on existing database if using default plugins & a newer version of {x12} parser.