Alliance Provides All Types of HIPAA
Compliance to Quovadx Customers
REDMOND, WA (December 3,
2002) -- Edifecs, a leading
provider of solutions for community
enablement including partner self-service
testing, data validation and certification,
announced it has formed an alliance
with Quovadx, a leading provider of
software and services enabling competitive
process advantage, to deliver a compliance
solution for The Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act
(HIPAA).
"We are pleased to partner
with an organization as well-respected
in the industry as Edifecs,"
said Herb Larsen, vice president of
product management at Quovadx. "Quovadx
is dedicated to delivering products
of the highest quality to our customers.
Working with Edifecs, we bring a solution
to the market that will save our customers
many hours in development and testing,
as well as deliver on the promise
of HIPAA - reduced expenses through
administrative simplification of claims,
eligibility, claim status requests,
and other transactions."
"Quovadx's decision to partner
with Edifecs underscores Quovadx's
strategy of using best-of-breed technologies
in building solutions for its customers,"
said Sunny Singh, chief executive
officer of Edifecs. "Edifecs
HIPAA validation offering is the most
effective, complete and widely used
solution in its class."
About Quovadx, Inc.
Quovadx is a trusted provider of
software and services enabling competitive
process advantage. The company provides
end-to-end business infrastructure
software and services, including consulting,
transaction hosting and operations
management for business-critical applications.
QUOVADXTM technology helps more than
3,000 healthcare, media and entertainment
and other organizations streamline
business processes, solve difficult
process integration challenges, and
unlock the value of legacy system
investments to achieve rapid return
on investments. Headquartered in Englewood,
Colorado, Quovadx operates internationally
with locations in nine major U.S.
metropolitan cities, and one in London.
For more information, please visit
http://www.quovadx.com.
About Edifecs, Inc.
Edifecs (www.edifecs.com)
is a proven provider of solutions
for rapidly deploying and managing
today's trading partner networks.
The Edifecs enablement solution suite
encompasses the CommerceDesk, SpecBuilder,
and XEngine product families -- all
designed to reduce cost and time-to-market
for companies deploying trading partner
networks. The Edifecs HIPAA solution
provides enablement technologies to
accelerate the implementation of HIPAA
and healthcare trading communities.
HIPAADesk.com (www.HIPAADesk.com),
powered by Edifecs CommerceDeskx, is
the first free and full service HIPAA
compliance checking & testing
facility for the healthcare community.
Founded in 1996, Edifecs serves an
installed base of more than 1,200
customers and partners including numerous
B2B providers such as GE Global eXchange
Services, Harbinger/Inovis, Microsoft,
Quovadx, Sterling Commerce and TIBCO.
Edifecs healthcare clients include
Abbot Labs, Baxter Healthcare, BCBS
Association, BCBS of Alabama, BCBS
of Georgia, HealthPartners and many
others. Edifecs is a technology partner
for more than 30 industry consortia
including RosettaNet, ebXML, UN/CEFACT,
CompTIA, and OBI. Based in Redmond,
Washington, Edifecs is privately held.
For more information regarding Edifecs solutions click here.
SpecBuilder, XEngine, CommerceDesk
& HIPAADesk are trademarks of
Edifecs. QUOVADX is a trademark of
Quovadx, Inc.
All other company and product names
are the property of their respective
owners.
Edifecs Contact:
public Relations
Edifecs Inc.
pr@edifecs.com
