Edifecs Announces NPI Solution for Healthcare Organizations
Bellevue, WA — March 30: Edifecs, Inc., the leading provider of B2B solutions for transaction interoperability,
today announced the launch of its healthcare National Provider Identifier (NPI) solution.
Edifecs is leveraging its robust and scalable products to offer a complete front-end system that supports implementation
of an effective transition strategy for NPI, as outlined in the WEDI white paper “Dual Use of NPI & Legacy Identifiers”,
published May 31, 2005. The Edifecs NPI solution is easily pluggable into most provider, payer, and clearinghouse environments
without affecting the current system flow. It is one of the most comprehensive solutions for NPI in the market today,
yet it has the flexibility to be customized to meet individual client needs.
The National Provider Identifier was defined as part of HIPAA Administrative Simplification with the goal of creating
a unique provider identifier that could be used nationally across enterprises as the only identifier for all provider entities.
The assumption is that when there is a single unique and universal identifier for providers, then the administrative burden for provider,
payers, clearinghouses, and other health care stakeholders will be dramatically reduced.
The industry is making great strides in adding this logic to their back-end adjudication, PMS, or HIS systems
with the help of their software vendor. However, almost all organizations recognize the need for an effective transition solution
using a dynamically created front-end crosswalk to keep claim and transactions processing at the current automated rates.
Edifecs provides a practical solution by delivering a comprehensive front-end crosswalk mechanism with the ability for individual
entities to determine which elements of each transaction to be stored and leveraged in new processing routines.
The Edifecs NPI solution will process data at the edge of an organization’s IT environment, as the data enters or leaves
the organization. The back-end system will continue to work as it currently works. The front-end system will ensure that
the data entering the organization and going into the back-end system gets changed to meet the needs of the back-end system.
Similarly, as the data from back-end system is ready to leave the organization, the Edifecs NPI solution will change
the data so the trading partner’s system will receive it with the necessary NPI information.
“We are pleased to announce this innovative Edifecs NPI solution,” said Sunny Singh, CEO of Edifecs.
“Edifecs NPI solution is a comprehensive crosswalk solution for staged implementation and rollout that supports
National Provider IDs. As a value-added module to Edifecs XEngine, our payer, provider and clearinghouse customers
will be well-positioned for success during NPI rollout.”
About Edifecs, Inc.
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 General Industry 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.
