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RE: X12 vs: XML File Sizes
HIPAA addresses the financial information exchanges between health care
providers and payers. Goods are typically supply chain.
Having said that, if an organization is required to comply with the HIPAA
transaction set requirements, I have a hard time trying to find the business
value of first taking data from an X12 format, reformatting it into XML and
then populating a database with that data, or vice versa...the business
value of taking data from a database, formatting it into an XML document and
then once again reformatting it into a HIPAA compliant X12-based transaction
set.
Quite frankly, there's no dollar benefit to be gained in this reformatting
upon reformatting.
Rachel Foerster
-----Original Message-----
From: OLIVOLA Peter [mailto:
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 3:36 PM
To:
Subject: RE: [EDI-L] X12 vs: XML File Sizes
It's also good to remember that not everyone involved in health care is
HIPAA bound. There are goods and services being transacted within the
industry that need to be communicated that will ultimately need to be HIPAA
compliant by someone, but it may not be the data originator. Mapping from
an XML structure, properly loop formatted, to X12 or taking that information
into a relational database application for subsequent processing before
generating a HIPAA document, is well worth considering as an alternative to
X12 if the parties are not already exchanging X12 format documents and have
none to limited existing EDI capability.
Peter G. Olivola
Effective Data, Inc.
1515 E. Woodfield Rd.
Suite 770
Schaumburg IL 60173
847 969 9300
708 829 3185 (cell)
847 969 9350 (fax)
-----Original Message-----
From: Rachel Foerster [mailto:
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 3:10 PM
To:
Subject: RE: [EDI-L] X12 vs: XML File Sizes
Just keep in mind that the only "legal" data exchange format between covered
entities for HIPAA transactions is according to the X12 specifications
embodied in the HIPAA guides adopted by the Department of Health and Human
Services. No other exchange format, including XML, is allowed under HIPAA.
So the issue of transaction volume bloat is a non-issue as far as HIPAA
transactions go.
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