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Re: ANSI ASC X12: BIN and BDS segments
Michael,
The good news is that the HIPAA attachments, with BIN segment and all, only
include 7-bit data and all of it is printable. No control characters either.
The magic is done by MIME-encoding any images (jpeg, tiff, pdf) before sending
them inside the BIN, and the MIME-encoding gives you the base64 encoding you
need to avoid non-printable characters.
So, even with the HIPAA attachments there is no "binary" data being sent in
the BIN, only "text".
Kepa Zubeldia
Claredi
On Wednesday 23 March 2005 08:59 am, Michael Mattias wrote:
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> > Michael, just wait until healthcare gets going with the proposed
electronic
> > claims attachments!!! This will be a 275 transaction set, with the BIN
> > segment into which an HL7 XML-based message containing either structured
> > data, images, text files, etc. is poured. There are even some who believe
> > that this will be a fairly easy adoption since health care providers and
> > payers are already using X12!!!!
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> Well, that's exactly what I was looking at. As you know I develop and market
software for "healthcare EDI" and with this attachment
> thing coming down the pike I thought about creating something to handle
this. (You know, automatically extract the attachments or
> print them out or create an API for the billing/practice management software
developers or something like that).
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> But when I stepped back from the tree to look at the forest, this
'high-order ASCII character thing' hit me...
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> Even though communications is no longer the black art it once was (when just
making a connection required one priest, six acolytes
> and the live sacrifice of five goats and one virgin), I cannot help but see
that 'smoothly' embedding and extracting binary data
> into/from ANSI ASC X12 data amd moving it from Point A to Point B will be a
challenge(?) for a lot of providers, service bureaus and
> others.
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> (Yes, I know it's not technically difficult - in the abstract. But I work
mostly with smaller firms who cannot afford a full time
> "Computer Communications Department").
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> I guess I'll just have to stick this in my navel and contemplate a bit
further.....
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> Michael Mattias
> Tal Systems, Inc.
> Racine WI
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