Original publication date: February, 2002
If you’re a member of the health care or insurance industries, you’ve probably heard a lot of talk about “HIPAA” lately.
And, for those of you who haven’t, it’s not the “Handsome Irish Performers Appreciation Association” (sorry, Pierce Brosnan)--it’s the federally enacted Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.
HIPAA legislation mandates that health care providers, insurers, and other organizations that electronically exchange insurance- or patient-related information do so using standardized EDI transactions rather than proprietary or customized ones. And, since these organizations have until no later than October 16, 2002 to submit detailed HIPAA compliance plans to the federal government, most are already considering how they will implement these standards.
For these companies, Softshare has great news. Our new HIPAA Starter Pack for Softshare Delta provides a complete library of HIPAA-compliant transaction models, letting you easily convert between HIPAA-mandated formats and those already used by your internal systems. And, thanks to Delta’s sophisticated mapping capabilities, you can not only create and translate HIPAA-compliant data, but also seamlessly integrate it into existing components of your corporate infrastructure, such as databases and intranets.
Interested? To learn more about Delta’s HIPAA Starter Pack, you can visit our HIPAA Starter Pack information site or contact Softshare Sales.