Edifecs Receives WEDI Corporate Leadership Award in Healthcare
Bellevue, WA. October 27th, 2005 --
Edifecs, Inc. the leading provider of B2B solutions for transaction-based interoperability,
today announced that it is the recipient of the WEDI Corporate Leadership Award.
These awards are awarded to companies that have contributed to the advancement of EDI and eCommerce
through the development and implementation of standards for ADMINISTRATIVE SIMPLIFICATION or
contribution to the application of new technologies in the furtherance or improved operations and
cost-effectiveness in healthcare business enterprises. “We are both humbled and proud to receive
this award from such a well-respected and august body as WEDI,” said Sunny Singh, CEO of EdifecsTM.
“One of Edifecs’s key goals is to minimize the barriers to healthcare transactional interoperability.
It is truly thrilling to be recognized as a leader in the industry by the most recognized healthcare EDI leadership group.”
EdifecsTM helps healthcare organizations achieve interoperability with trading
partners by automating B2B transactions exchange. Edifecs provides enabling technologies for achieving compliance,
transaction validation and interoperability management. By getting trading partners to seamlessly
exchange transactions and then providing centralized storage and mining of such data,
Edifecs will enable healthcare organizations to derive significant ROI from HIPAA transaction
data and other healthcare standard transactions. With a central physical and virtual store
of standard transactional data, important analytics and decision support information can be
provided for real time business intelligence.
Edifecs continues to provide thought leadership in the healthcare industry.
This includes the FREE healthcare transaction testing and certification service HIPAADeskTM,
the most popular and most widely-used 3rd party testing and certification service in the market.
Edifecs also provides collaborative portals to numerous healthcare associations for purposes of promoting regional
interoperability efforts. Additionally Edifecs has made significant investments in contributing resources to further
the development of healthcare standards and best practices through organizations like WEDI, X12N, NCPDP, HL7 and many more.
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-based Business Intelligence.
Edifecs provides solutions for over 1600 customers including 200 in healthcare. Founded in 1996,
Edifecs is headquartered in Bellevue, WA. Company website: www.edifecs.com.
Edifecs press contact: Herb Larsen, SVP Sales and Marketing, 404-307-6001, herbl@edifecs.com.
