Healthcare Supply
We may take it for granted that our local hospitals will have the necessary equipment and supplies on-hand for any medical emergency, but healthcare product suppliers don't. EDI is used throughout the industry to improve the purchasing process and ensure that life-saving materials are always available.
Some of the common EDI purchasing transactions being exchanged within the healthcare supply industry are listed next.
| ANSI X12 Standard |
UN/EDIFACT Standard |
| 810 invoice |
INVOIC invoice |
| 850 purchase order |
ORDERS purchase order |
| 855 purchase order acknowledgment |
ORDRSP purchase order response |
| 865 purchase order change acknowledgment/request |
| 856 ship notice/manifest |
DESADV despatch advice |
| PRODEX product exchange reconciliation |
| 860 purchase order change request |
ORDCHG purchase order change request |
Softshare is very familiar with these EDI transactions, and our various EDI solutions support all of them.
Our enterprise integration solution, which consists of Softshare Delta, our data translator, and Softshare ECS, our e-commerce communications server, provides for seamless integration of EDI into your overall business processes. Softshare's professional services group can assist with implementation or provide training if you want to develop your own data translation maps.
If your company is not ready for full-scale EDI integration, you can connect to your healthcare supply partners using Softshare Athena, our Web EDI solution, or Softshare Vista, our Windows-based desktop EDI solution. Both of these solutions are forms-based, making the exchange of EDI documents similar to that of e-mail.
Several of the more well-known healthcare supply companies that Softshare software users exchange EDI documents with are listed next. The highlighted companies are those that we have created forms (i.e. trading partner kits) for, and you can click on them to learn more about their EDI programs.
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