New Web Service Helps Healthcare
Industry Save Millions While Showing
Compliance With Complex Regulatory
Requirements
Bellevue, WA, March 3, 2003
-- Edifecs, a leading provider of
technology solutions for e-commerce
community enablement, today announced
that it is providing free HIPAA transaction
testing and certification on its online
community, HIPAADesk.com, which today
serves over 1,500 healthcare entities.
This new service will enable the healthcare
community to achieve and demonstrate
compliance with the ASC X12 HIPAA
Implementation Guide requirements
for transactions mandated by the Health
Insurance Portability and Accountability
Act.
An independent study presented at
last November's WEDI-SNIP Summit
found the two major fee-for-testing
providers to be comparable in quality
with Edifecs free testing service,
HIPAADesk.com. This service comes
just in time to help the healthcare
industry meet the April 14 deadline
to begin testing. This service will
allow healthcare entities -- including
hospitals, doctors' offices,
health insurance companies, clearinghouses,
vendors and others -- to do the following:
Obtain a comparison report of the
4010 and the addenda for each of the
HIPAA implementation guidelines
Test data files against HIPAA Implementation
Guide requirements
Certify that the files submitted
to HIPAADesk.com meet the format and
content
requirements for HIPAA Implementation
Guide compliance using WEDI type 1
–
7 edits
Share that certification with other
interested parties
Focus financial resources on business-to-business
(provider-to-payer) testing,
where the real benefits of HIPAA come
to fruition
No one can argue the value
of entities testing for compliance
before approaching their trading partners
for testing, said Marcallee
Jackson, director of healthcare solutions
for Edifecs. We're concerned,
however, that the financial resources
of the healthcare industry are being
drained by a process that is only
a small step in the successful enablement
of each e-commerce community. With
fees that can range from $600 - $6,000
per certifiable entity and tens of
thousands of entities to be certified,
the cost of third party testing can
really add up. Our free testing and
certification service will allow the
healthcare industry to save many millions
of dollars.
To find out why more than 1,500 healthcare
entities have joined HIPAADesk, organizations
can sign-up today at www.hipaadesk.com,
contact Edifecs at free@edifecs.com
or (425) 452-0630 for more information.
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(R), SpecBuilder(TM),
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 (www.HIPAADesk.com), powered
by Edifecs CommerceDesk, is
the first free and full service HIPAA
compliance checking & testing
facility for the healthcare industry.
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.
SpecBuilder, XEngine, CommerceDesk
& HIPAADesk are trademarks of
Edifecs.
All other company and product names
are the property of their respective
owners.
Media Contact:
Marcallee Jackson
marcalleej@edifecs.com
(714) 865-5059
