Healthcare Solutions | Unified Testing

The expanding use of electronic data in healthcare along with impending deadlines for HIPAA 5010 compliance are increasing the testing a healthcare organization must conduct to onboard and maintain trading partner relationships.

Unfortunately, many healthcare organizations lack the automated test tools, test data, test scenarios and analysis tools to fully support increased testing demands. Consequently, testing continues to have numerous manual steps resulting in excess costs, testing inefficiencies and unnecessary risk of errors in production systems.

The Edifecs Unified Testing solution is a set of products and services that support internal and external healthcare transaction testing. Unified Testing includes systems to create and manage test data, test activity monitoring and reporting, and self-service testing portals for trading partners.

Edifecs Unified Testing allows for internal and external testing before a new transaction, business rule or scenario is rolled out in a production environment. It allows organizations to reduce testing implementation time and costs, improve transaction quality, and streamline trading partner support, while improving partner satisfaction.

• Improve operational efficiencies and reduce testing related costs by converting existing transaction files to test cases, tracking internal and external testing activity, automatically migrating companion guides to new versions, and using automated testing to free internal staff to focus on higher priorities. 

• Expedite error diagnosis, resolution and time to production by using guided testing programs, a testing reference library, well-defined testing scenarios, and a partner self-service testing portal.

• Improve onboarding service to trading partners using a self-service testing portal that allows partners to register, self-test, communicate with internal staff and automatically receive completion certificates.

• Reduce risk of errors in production by using a best-practices testing model to onboard new partners, and by performing full-loop request/response testing to ensure smooth rollout into production.

• Ensure HIPAA compliance by verifying compliance with all seven types of HIPAA rules, including Level-7 trading partner specific business rules.

   

Edifecs Unified Testing solutions are based on the following products and services:

• Edifecs SpecBuilder
• Edifecs Ramp Management
• Edifecs Transaction Management
• Edifecs Compliance Online
• Edifecs Test Management