HIPAA Partner Certification &
Enablement, Data Validation and Conversion
Technologies released by Edifecs
REDMOND, WA (May 23, 2002)
-- Edifecs, a leading provider of solutions
which help companies accelerate the
building of standards-based B2B trading
partner networks, today announced
that it is providing comprehensive
HIPAA support throughout its entire
product line to help companies meet
upcoming deadlines for compliance
with the Health Insurance Portability
and Accountability ACT (HIPAA). These
technologies include SpecBuilder for
HIPAA content repository and guideline
authoring, XEngine for HIPAA data
testing and conversion, and CommerceDesk
for web-based HIPAA trading partner
certification.
The HIPAA legislation of 1996 requires
healthcare companies to meet federal
standards for the transaction of patient
data by October 16, 2003. The advantage
of the legislation is that it sets
uniform standards for healthcare transactions,
so that providers and payers speak
a common language. The challenge is
that the actual HIPAA guidelines contain
literally thousands of pages of detailed
technical specifications that must
be precisely implemented and then
tested with each and every trading
partner.
The solution to meet the HIPAA challenge
is for healthcare companies to leverage
self-service and automated technologies
to ramp-up their trading partner communities.
Edifecs products meet this challenge
by providing a proven certification
process that assures transactions
are fully tested and HIPAA compliant.
Together SpecBuilder, CommerceDesk
and XEngine significantly reduce
implementation costs and time to perform
transaction compliance testing offering
the fastest path to partner certification
and HIPAA compliance.
"Edifecs offers a mature suite
of enabling technologies that now
provide extensive support for HIPAA
using a common data exchange platform
and standardized business transactions,"
said Ramin Sayar, director of healthcare
solutions for TIBCO Software, Inc.
"TIBCO has partnered with Edifecs
to provide health care organizations
with a solution set that can rapidly
enable connectivity and service to
their employees, customers and trading
partners."
"Edifecs HIPAA solution is focused
on solving the problem of accelerating
HIPAA implementations. Today healthcare
organizations are experiencing serious
time and cost constraints in achieving
HIPAA compliance. Edifecs enablement
technologies offer a significant reduction
in time and cost in implementing HIPAA-based
trading relationships", said
Sunny Singh CEO of Edifecs.
Edifecs SpecBuilder for HIPAA Guideline
Authoring & Desktop Testing
SpecBuilder is the most widely deployed
schema authoring and management suite
in the market. The new release extends
its tried and tested feature set to
provide the fastest, most reliable
path to HIPAA transaction compliance
and partner enablement.
SpecBuilder's content repository
contains a complete library of the
latest X12 HIPAA standards. SpecBuilder's
editor, a development environment
for authoring, extending, specializing
and maintaining guidelines, includes
an enhanced feature set to make working
with HIPAA transaction sets even easier.
SpecBuilder's new rules support includes
pre-defined HIPAA rules and the ability
to define additional custom rules.
SpecBuilder's test data generator
quickly generates sample test data,
which can then be customized to meet
specific HIPAA scenarios. Finally,
SpecBuilder's migrator identifies
gaps between different HIPAA guideline
versions, different guideline implementations,
or guidelines and the X12 or X12N
standards.
Edifecs XEngine for HIPAA Testing,
Validation & Data Conversion
XEngine provides both robust HIPAA
data validation and EDI to XML data
conversion. XEngine's validator is
the world's leading technology for
testing & certification. In the
new release, the validation engine
has been extended to support deep
content validation including hundreds
of custom business rules spanning
all 6 of the WEDI/SNIP testing levels.
This includes integrity testing, requirements
testing, balancing, external code
set testing, product types testing,
and trading partner specific testing.
XEngine bridges the gap between
EDI and XML by providing a high performance
runtime conversion engine from EDI
data to XML and visa versa with full
HIPAA validation. Other features include
acknowledgement generation and transaction
batching.
Edifecs CommerceDesk for HIPAA Self-Service
Certification
CommerceDesk is a web based self-service
partner testing, validation and certification
solution with broad support for HIPAA.
The new release includes full HIPAA
compliance testing support and a self-service,
web-centric, 24x7 HIPAA certification
service. This powerful enablement
solution offers healthcare organizations
and their trading partners a complete
infrastructure for performing secure
and private online HIPAA data validation
and trading partner certification.
In addition it offers the community
management, program management, and
partner management features necessary
to cover the complete set of steps
necessary for trading community enablement.
Other key features include a HIPAA
knowledge base, HIPAA certification
reporting, detailed HIPAA error reporting,
and HIPAA guidelines online.
About Edifecs Inc.
Edifecs Inc. (www.edifecs.com) is
the proven provider of solutions for
rapidly deploying and managing today's
private trading partner networks.
The Edifecs solution suite encompasses
the CommerceDesk™, SpecBuilder™
and XEngine™ product families,
and a Services group with demonstrated
expertise in B2B standards---all designed
to reduce cost and time-to-market
for companies building complex transactional
trading partner networks.
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 and Peregrine Systems. 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, with investment
from GE Global eXchange Services.
More information can be found at www.edifecs.com.
SpecBuilder, CommerceDesk, and XEngine
are trademarks of Edifecs.
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