Columbia, MD & Redmond, WA (Oct
15, 2002) – Edifecs, the leading
provider of HIPAA validation and community
enablement solutions, today announced
that dakota imaging, inc. has selected
Edifecs SpecBuilder after completing
a thorough due diligence process.
Edifecs SpecBuilder is the
leading HIPAA toolset for building
HIPAA companion guides, generating
HIPAA test data and performing desktop
based HIPAA data compliance testing.
Dakota imaging is a market leader
in automated data capture, document
imaging and healthcare claims pre-adjudications
systems and services. The company's
outsourcing services include scanning
and data capture, remote scanning,
EDI transaction processing, data validation,
imaging/EDI document archival and
retrieval
and HIPAA transaction services. Edifecs
SpecBuilder will allow dakota to quickly
bring new clients up in its BPO operations
by validating claim submission. SpecBuilder
will also enable dakota to integrate
the custom trading partner
rule sets that its healthcare clients
require.
Edifecs SpecBuilder is a standards-agnostic
tool that supports X12N and HIPAA
implementation guidelines, including
the upcoming Addenda. It includes
support for the full set of HIPAA
specific rules as well as extensive
support for over 50 HIPAA code sets
and industry databases. SpecBuilder
checks for all 1-7 error types as
recommended by WEDI/SNIP. The SpecBuilder
data generator allows users to generate
HIPAA test data files for internal
and trading partner testing.
Dakota needed to find a robust
and flexible solution for pre-production
validation, documentation and test
data generation of HIPAA-compliant
transactions for our expanding BPO
division. With HIPAA deadlines rapidly
approaching, many of our current and
potential customers are looking to
dakota imaging to provide a cost-effective
solution to their scanning, data capture
and HIPAA-compliant EDI processing
needs. Edifecs SpecBuilder
and HIPAADesk products allow us to
address these challenges with an excellent
cost-to-value ratio that our business
demands, said Bruce MacKinnon,
Director, BPO with dakota.
Edifecs has quickly established
itself as the leader in providing
HIPAA validation & enablement
technologies by providing a robust
solution that solves the needs of
customers such as dakota imaging.
dakota imaging will be
leveraging SpecBuilder to expedite
the time consuming process of trading
partner testing, said Greg
Gilles, V.P. of Product Management
at Edifecs.
About Dakota Imaging
Dakota Imaging (http://www.dakotaimaging.com)
delivers turnkey solutions and professional
outsourcing services for high volume
paper and eTransaction processing,
with special expertise in the health
claim market. The company provides
solutions for paper, electronic and
Internet transaction processing including
automated data capture, document imaging,
OCR, HealthClaim Expert pre-adjudications
rules processing, EDI Communications
Gateways, COLD, Image/EDI document
archival and Web based self service
software for on-line referrals, authorizations
and eligibility. dakota also provides
ready-to-use solutions for high-volume
transaction processing applications
in the insurance, fulfillment and
government markets. Founded in 1989,
the company is based in Columbia,
Md., and has offices in Atlanta and
Dallas.
About Edifecs
Edifecs (http://www.edifecs.com)
is the proven provider of solutions
for rapidly deploying and managing
today's trading partner networks.
The Edifecs enablement solution suite
encompasses the CommerceDesk™,
SpecBuilder™, 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 (www.hipaadesk.com),
powered by Edifecs CommerceDesk,
is the first free HIPAA compliance
checking & testing facility for
the healthcare community.
Founded in 1996, Edifecs serves an
installed base of more than 1,000
customers and partners with 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 Bellevue, Washington, Edifecs is
privately held.For more information regarding Edifecs solutions click here.
