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RE: XML HIPAA
Bill,
Unfortunately as you are aware HIPAA is a mandated piece of federal
legislation and generally legislators do not move very quickly. Keep in
mind HIPAA was passed in 1996. There is plenty of interest in the
healthcare community for XML but it is a sizeable effort. HL7
(www.hl7.org) which is on the clinical side of healthcare has been
working on some XML standards.
I would agree with your comments about creating XML from EDI on a 1:1
basis but yet the EDI side has a lot of business knowledge and
experience that shouldn't be thrown out the window when XML standards
are developed some day.
There are discussions within X12 to use the ebXML framework for XML and
other organizations are looking at ebXML like the Centers for Disease
Control (CDC).
Regards,
David Frenkel
Business Development
GEFEG USA
Global Leader in Ecommerce Tools
www.gefeg.com
425-260-5030
-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Chessman [mailto:
Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 10:23 AM
To: 'New EDI-L'
Subject: RE: [EDI-L] XML HIPAA
Bob Criekz started this thread by saying: "I'm looking for an XML DTD or
Schema for the HIPAA standard transactions. I realize these are X12 and
NCPDP based, but I'm looking for a decent internal XML representation of
these transactions - hopefully something that is open, non-proprietary
and
has a shot at gaining some industry acceptance after the HIPAA standards
move on past the current phase."
David Frenkel wrote: "There is nothing on the radar screen for HIPAA to
use
XML."
I would offer this thought: If and when HIPAA steers in an XML-ward
direction, I hope those who design the XML messages would not want to
simply
replicate the EDI transaction sets. A straight 1-to-1 conversion from
EDI
to XML will solve nothing and ensure longer transmissions.
Best regards to all,
Bill Chessman
Inovis(tm) (formerly Harbinger and Extricity)
(Naturally, opinions expressed are mine and not necessarily my
employer's)
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