Electronic Network Systems (ENS)
to use Edifecs XEngine for HIPAA transaction
validation, compliance and testing.
Colorado Springs CO &
Redmond, WA (Dec 4, 2002)
– Electronic Network Systems
(ENS), a national healthcare e-commerce
company, announced that is has selected
the Edifecs HIPAA Enablement Solution
for transaction compliance and community
enablement. As part of the partnership
ENS will use Edifecs XEngine to perform
testing and validation of all inbound
and outbound HIPAA data.
ENS has cutting-edge HIPAA compliant
transactions processing infrastructure
paired with industry leading customer
support. ENS delivers its unique services
and time saving applications to hundreds
of healthcare payers while linking
them to their providers for key HIPAA-defined
business transactions. ENS currently
processes transactions from over 200,000
healthcare providers. XEngine will
be used by ENS to help insure and
assist their trading partners in HIPAA
transactions compliance.
XEngine is a high performance version
of Edifecs original desktop
analyzer product first introduced
in 1996. Today XEngine is trusted
by over fifty companies for instream
production data validation and thousands
of companies for offline testing.
XEngine's deep content and data
validation spans all seven of the
WEDI/SNIP testing types including
integrity testing, requirements testing,
balancing, external code set testing,
product types testing, and trading
partner specific testing. Other features
include acknowledgement generation,
transaction batching and the ability
to convert between EDI data and XML
and visa versa. XEngine is supported
on both NT and Solaris platforms.
Today Edifecs XEngine is the most
widely deployed HIPAA EDI testing,
validation & certification engine
in the market.
ENS fills in the gaps for
our clients as it relates to HIPAA
transactions processing. Payers, practice
management software vendors and providers
rely on ENS for HIPAA portal applications
and transactions processing. Edifecs
helps ENS insure the compliance of
transactions with all trading and
provides added piece of mind to all
parties, said Ana English,
President & COO of ENSHealth.
ENS Health has built a reputation
of being one of the leading clearinghouses
and recently the most notable payer
services organization in the market
today providing extensive HIPAA EDI
related services to its customers.
Edifecs XEngine for HIPAA has become
the leading, most widely installed
and most embedded HIPAA validation
and transactional compliance engine
in the market. This partnership leverages
the core competencies of both companies
to provide a compelling value proposition
to ENS clients, said Sunny
Singh CEO of Edifecs.
ENS provides Internet and e-commerce
connectivity between thousands of
health care providers such as physicians,
hospitals, clinics, practice management
software vendors and third party commercial
payers. ENS is currently processing
transactions annually from more than
200,000 providers.
ENS provides services to healthcare
providers and payers that eliminate
paper and labor-intensive process
in the administration of healthcare
delivery. ENS provides and supports
Health-e Network®, a full cycle
suite of products and services designed
to increase productivity, automate,
and streamline workflow between providers
and health care payer organizations.
About Edifecs
Edifecs (http://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 CommerceDesk,
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, Microsoft, Harbinger/Inovis,
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.
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owners.
