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Structuring the B2B Requirements Process for Healthcare

Each B2B implementation must start with the requirements process. This process for healthcare can be broken into the following 6 key steps:

• Select a Base Healthcare Standard
• Customize your Companion Guideline
• Compare and Migrate between Versions
• Integrate Faster with Half-Maps
• Validate Production Data for Compliance
• Create Test Data for Backend Testing

SpecBuilder includes the following tools specifically designed to simplify and structure the requirements process for B2B implementation.

Select a Base Healthcare Standard SpecBuilder includes an extensive standards library that greatly reduces the time-to-define business messages. The healthcare library contains templates for X12, EDIFACT, HIPAA, HL7 and NCPDP. Each template includes descriptions, business rules, usage notes, and other properties. Refer to the SpecBuilder Standards Library Guide for the complete list including version and release numbers.
Customize your Companion Guideline Use the SpecBuilder editor tool to add your specific business rules to create your companion guideline. You can include and exclude codes and other guideline nodes, customize min and max values, add syntax rules, enter usage notes, specify application mapping fields, and more. Then output detailed reports that include a table of contents, sections for guideline and dictionary information, and a cross-referenced index. Reports can be sent to a printer or saved as RTF or HTML.
Compare and Migrate between Versions Migrate customizations when new versions of the standards are released and after performing GAP analysis with your partners. Perform detailed GAP analysis between your purchase orders, invoices, and other specifications and those of partners, the base standard, or industry guidelines. Set comparison options to look for differences in min and max values, syntax rules, usage notes, application fields, and many other attributes. Get Standards updates as they are released with SpecBuilder and then save time using Migrator to copy your custom requirements to new versions.
Integrate Faster with Half-Maps Reduce partner time-to-integrate by exporting half-maps from SpecBuilder to BizTalk, GENTRAN, and many other mapping tools. By using "Half-Maps", trading partners can directly import the entire message specification, including all of the business rules, directly into their mapping tool. This both reduces the time to implement, as well as reduces the potential for errors and time to test.
Validate Production Data for Compliance Use SpecBuilder Analyzer to test internal and partner data for specification compliance and improve quality while saving time. Perform more than a 100 specific validation checks including WEDI SNIP validation, field data type validation, length validation, syntax rule validation, and more. Quickly navigate your data files using SpecBuilder's powerful 3-paned window that links each error with the corresponding data and guideline nodes.
Create Test Data for Backend Testing Use the SpecBuilder data tool to create comprehensive test scenarios for backend and partner testing. First auto-generate a set of test files directly from your guidelines. Then, use the data navigator window to easily customize the data files while being assured that the changes you make are compliant with your specifications.