Edifecs and the North Carolina Healthcare Information and Communications
Alliance, Inc. (NCHICA) Announce Partnership
NCHICA leverages Edifecs community management portal technology and Association Partner Program benefits to enhance collaboration for workgroup members.
Bellevue, WA. July 13, 2005 -- Edifecs, the proven provider of B2B
solutions for transaction-based interoperability, announces collaboration with the North Carolina Healthcare
Information and Communications Alliance, Inc. (NCHICA) through the Edifecs Association Partner Program.
The partnership enables NCHICA to leverage cutting edge collaborative technology to enhance the efforts of its members.
Launching the online community will allow resource sharing and work product coordination at a new level.
Edifecs Association Partner Program (APP) provides the state of the art CommerceDesk community management and enablement portal technology to over a dozen healthcare collaborative groups such the Southern Healthcare Administrative Regional Process Workgroup (SHARPWorkgroup), the National Medicaid EDI Healthcare (NMEH) workgroup, and many more. Adding NCHICA to the program further establishes the leadership and partnership between Edifecs and the healthcare industry. Utilizing the fully hosted and supported collaborative community portal allows leadership and members in disparate locations to access information and collaborate on work products in a streamlined, shared environment.
"Our workgroup efforts are the foundation of our success," said Holt Anderson, executive director of NCHICA. "The Edifecs Association Partner Program and NCHICA community portal afford our workgroup members an online collaborative environment that will enhance their efforts and streamline their communications."
"NCHICA is a recognized leader in regional healthcare technology collaboration," said Andrea Danes, Edifecs APP Coordinator. "We are excited to work with their leadership and members and assist this group in taking their collaborative efforts to the next level based on the cutting edge technology now available to them through community management application in CommerceDesk."
About NCHICA
NCHICA, a nonprofit organization, is the premiere consortium in North Carolina that champions the adoption of information technology (IT) to improve healthcare. Its members include leading organizations in healthcare, research and information technology. Working closely with its members, NCHICA operates in many venues as a promoter, catalyst and innovator. NCHICA facilitates demonstration projects, hosts educational sessions, fosters collaborative efforts and supports initiatives that promote IT in healthcare. Please visit www.nchica.org for more information.
About Edifecs
Edifecs is the proven provider of B2B solutions for transaction-based interoperability. Edifecs solves the interoperability problem by enabling, managing and deriving business value from standard electronic transactions within trading partner communities. Our standards-independent B2B applications include Community Enablement, Transaction Management, and Transaction Analytics. Edifecs also provides the market leading specification design-time tool SpecBuilder and run-time data validation engine XEngine. Edifecs provides solutions for over 1600 customers including 200 in healthcare. Founded in 1996, Edifecs is headquartered in Bellevue, WA.
Edifecs IndustryDesk
Edifecs IndustryDesk is a complimentary resource portal to facilitate nationwide healthcare collaboration. Bringing together the knowledge of many regional collaborative groups in a single portal will allow resource sharing and work product coordination.
