Edifecs Emerges As Undisputed Leader In Third Party HIPAA Testing And Certification
December 16, 2005: Edifecs Inc., the leading provider of B2B solutions for transaction interoperability,
today announced it has become the leading provider of 3rd party HIPAA testing and certification for
healthcare organizations, based on the number of covered entities using its services.
With thousands of covered entities as customers on HIPAADesk.com, Edifecs' testing and certification portal,
Edifecs has become the undisputed leader in healthcare interoperability assurance. Edifecs has more customers using its
HIPAA testing & certification services than all other similar vendor solutions combined together.
HIPAADesk.com is used by a broad range of health care entities including Medicaid, Medicare,
Blue and commercial payers, clearinghouses, independent software and service vendors and a large number of healthcare providers.
Edifecs HIPAADesk.com provides free testing and certification for all HIPAA EDI mandated transactions as well as
other industry recommended healthcare transactions such as NCPDP and acknowledgement transactions like 824 and 997.
Testing and certifying transactions on Edifecs HIPAADesk.com helps users clear up issues of transaction validity,
assuring trading partners about your organization's capability of submitting HIPAA compliant transactions.
Edifecs keeps the standards and code sets updated on the HIPAADesk.com website, including new versions as they become available.
The site provides an easy-to-use interface for testing, the ability to manage test activity, a rich set of compliance reports both for
the technical and business users, and testing by proxy through clearinghouse partners.
“The real problem facing healthcare organizations is trading partner interoperability.
Third party testing & certification is one step in achieving overall trading partner interoperability assurance or enablement process,”
said Sunny Singh, CEO of Edifecs. “Edifecs' goal is to increase provider adoption of HIPAA transactions and code sets.
As part of its healthcare industry leadership position, Edifecs has contributed this powerful and comprehensive service free to the industry.
Healthcare entities can now accomplish this step quickly and inexpensively, thus focusing on the bigger HIPAA interoperability and enablement
problems.”
Healthcare Industry is Raving About HIPAADesk.com
“HIPAADesk.com is a fantastic tool... We thought we were HIPAA certified, but our organization was not getting paid from our largest trading partners, so we had to re-evaluate our validation solution. After signing up with Edifecs, and certifying our files, we have been able to receive a significant cash payment all because we use Edifecs HIPAADesk to verify our HIPAA files first.”
Tammy Galbraith, St. John's Clinic, IDX EDI Manager
“HIPAADesk is absolutely the most user friendly HIPAA testing solution. We could not have accomplished as much as we have without it... it definitely allowed us to quickly implement our billing solutions into our software and with our clients' trading partners. Thanks Edifecs!”
Georgeanne Biancarosa, IMA System and Services, Director Implementation and Support
“Edifecs HIPAADesk has been an invaluable tool for our organization. Being new to HIPAA technology, I was very reluctant.
I needed a resource I could trust. Testing HIPAA transactions with HIPAADesk was a snap... If I can use it, anyone can!”
Mindy Manzer, Reports Specialist, Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare
“I love HIPAADesk. It is the easiest compliance tool to use and I know the results are accurate. It enabled us to migrate systems and test transactions in very short timeframes. Thank you for making it available to the small non-profits at such a great price... FREE.”
Leslie York, Health Information Administrator, A.W.A.R.E
About Edifecs
Edifecs helps organizations achieve interoperability and dramatic return on investment by enabling,
managing and deriving business value from standard electronic transactions within trading partner communities.
Edifecs' products include the Edifecs Healthcare Suite — A set of powerful applications and technologies that reduce
friction in the administrative, clinical, financial and pharmaceutical transaction workflows,
both within and between healthcare enterprises. The Suite includes business performance management applications
that automate and manage the full lifecycle of transactions; from community enablement, to testing and data validation,
real-time transaction monitoring, claim repair and reconciliation, facilitating direct connectivity and providing rich transaction analytics.
Edifecs also provides horizontal solutions for guideline authoring, data validation and partner enablement.
2006 marks 10 years of Edifecs' leadership and expertise in providing innovative technology solutions to over 1600 customers worldwide.
Edifecs has over 200 customers and partners in healthcare that include 16 Blue Plans, 35 Medicaid, State and Federal Agencies,
along with partnership arrangements with all leading middleware stack vendors. Founded in 1996, Edifecs is headquartered in Bellevue,
WA. Company website: www.edifecs.com.
Contact: Kevin Pierce, 425-452-0622, kevinp@edifecs.com.
