00016

Application Acknowledgement Type

Definition: This field contains the conditions under which application acknowledgments are required to be returned in response to this message. Required for enhanced acknowledgment mode.

The following table contains the possible values for MSH-15-accept acknowledgment type and MSH-16-application acknowledgment type:

Length≤2
4 values
ALAlways
ERError/reject conditions only
NENever
SUSuccessful completion only
IDCoded Value for HL7 tablesPrimitive