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Wed, September 30, 2009
Tue, September 29, 2009
Progress DataDirect : Progress DataDirect Simplifies HIPAA Healthcare Transaction Processing and Shares Expertise at XML-in-Pra
BEDFORD, MA--(Marketwire - September 29, 2009) - [ Progress DataDirect ], the data-infrastructure division of Progress Software Corporation (
On Jan. 15, 2009 the United States Department of Health and Human Services released the final rules for the updated X12 Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) transaction definitions, version 005010 to be used in conjunction with HIPAA and completed by January 2013. At the same time, the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) standard has been bumped from ICD-9 to ICD-10 with a compliance date of October 2013. These aggressive compliance mandates coupled with the close relationship between HIPAA transaction sets that can directly refer to ICD-9 or ICD-10 codes have health industry IT professionals scrambling. A huge fiscal burden has been placed on payers and providers as they look to redesign business processes and systems to handle hundreds of thousands of new codes at an estimated cost of more than $14 billion.
With robust support for X12 Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) standards and industry-leading data integration technologies, Progress DataDirect has provided healthcare organizations with a turn-key solution to modernize or enhance their existing infrastructure by allowing for scalable, automated conversion between EDI and XML and offering powerful integration tools and generic mappings to modify applications so that they are ready to support and process the new transactions.
Building on its existing support for EDI standards including X12 and HL7 clinical and administrative data standards, the DataDirect Data Integration Suite featuring the DataDirect XML Converters® technology, offers bi-directional conversion for the latest HIPAA EDI dialects including 004010A1, 005010 and 005010A1 messages. The high-performance components can transform thousands of EDI and flat-file formats to XML and back with little or no development time or expense and without a major re-architecting of a healthcare organization's applications. The DataDirect Data Integration Suite also features DataDirect XQuery®, an implementation of the standard that can query XML, relational data, SOAP messages, EDI, or a combination of data sources. Because the DataDirect XML Converters technology makes EDI available as XML, the DataDirect XQuery product can then be used to enrich, split and rearrange XML as needed for accelerated processing and compliance with XML schemas.
Progress DataDirect will be in attendance at the XML-in-Practice Healthcare Summit in Washington, D.C. Executives will be available to discuss not only how to process the new transaction formats, but also how to convert to the new codes and rework data management applications.
To further help software developers jump-start their data conversion projects, Progress DataDirect has created the [ DataDirect HIPAA/ICD Upgrade Toolkit ]. The robust, starter-kit includes:
-- XQuery source for upgrading each of the 10 transaction sets from the HIPAA 4010 to equivalent 5010 version -- 50 sample 4010 files to use with the above -- ICD-9 to ICD-10 maps -- A sample tool to compare the changes between ICD-9 codes and their closest ICD-10 analogs with HTML output -- An XQuery program which will read a HIPAA file containing ICD-9 codes and report on any potential conversion troubles with ICD-10 -- An XQuery program to read a HIPAA EDI file and covert it from 4010 to 5010 and from ICD-9 to ICD-10 simultaneously
"The aggressive compliance timeline for HIPAA and ICD-10 and the high-costs associated with the implementation of the code set will have a profound impact on the operations of healthcare organizations," said Dr. Carlo Innocenti, senior XML program manager at Progress DataDirect. "Progress DataDirect continues to anticipate the needs of those working with these standards by creating a robust data dictionary for HIPAA-compliant message types that allows users to accelerate the exchange of health-related information, enhance operational efficiency and reduce costs associated with development efforts."
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