Currently hundreds of variations of the HIPAA implementation guidelines exist in the industry.
Significant gains towards healthcare interoperability can be achieved by streamlining and simplifying the HIPAA companion
guideline authoring and implementation process. An important step in this process includes the coding of these individual
guidelines in one common tool and format.
The guidelines have been coded into the Edifecs SpecBuilder guideline authoring tool, currently used by hundreds of healthcare organizations.
With SpecBuilder emerging as the tool of choice by healthcare organizations for documenting and testing their business edits,
companion guidelines can be normalized into a common toolset and format.
Companion guidelines from the repository are available to test against through Edifecs. Log in to Edifecs Compliance Online using the tab above.
Edifecs healthcare provider clients can subscribe to the repository and use it in conjunction with Edifecs
XEngineTM EDI data validation engine to test their data for compliance against the payer specific guidelines prior
to transmitting the files to the payers, thus reducing errors and enabling revenue acceleration.  |
