ENS Selects Edifecs HIPAA Testing & Validation Solution
Electronic Network Systems (ENS) to use Edifecs XEngine for HIPAA
transaction validation, compliance and testing.
Colorado Springs CO & Redmond, WA (Dec 4, 2002) –
Electronic Network Systems (ENS), a national healthcare e-commerce
company, announced that it has selected the Edifecs HIPAA Enablement
Solution for transaction compliance and community enablement. As
part of the partnership ENS will use Edifecs XEngine to perform
testing and validation of all inbound and outbound HIPAA data.
ENS has cutting-edge HIPAA compliant transactions processing infrastructure
paired with industry leading customer support. ENS delivers its
unique services and time saving applications to hundreds of healthcare
payers while linking them to their providers for key HIPAA-defined
business transactions. ENS currently processes transactions from
over 200,000 healthcare providers. XEngine will be used by ENS to
help insure and assist their trading partners in HIPAA transactions
compliance.
XEngine is a high performance version of Edifecs’ original desktop
analyzer product first introduced in 1996. Today XEngine is trusted
by over fifty companies for instream production data validation
and thousands of companies for offline testing. XEngine’s deep content
and data validation spans all seven of the WEDI/SNIP testing types
including integrity testing, requirements testing, balancing, external
code set testing, product types testing, and trading partner specific
testing. Other features include acknowledgement generation, transaction
batching and the ability to convert between EDI data and XML and
visa versa. XEngine is supported on both NT and Solaris platforms.
Today Edifecs XEngine is the most widely deployed HIPAA EDI testing,
validation & certification engine in the market.
“ENS fills in the gaps for our clients as it relates to HIPAA transactions
processing. Payers, practice management software vendors and providers
rely on ENS for HIPAA portal applications and transactions processing.
Edifecs helps ENS insure the compliance of transactions with all
trading and provides added piece of mind to all parties,” said Ana
English, President & COO of ENSHealth.
“ENS Health has built a reputation of being one of the leading
clearinghouses and recently the most notable payer services organization
in the market today providing extensive HIPAA EDI related services
to its customers. Edifecs XEngine for HIPAA has become the leading,
most widely installed and most embedded HIPAA validation and transactional
compliance engine in the market. This partnership leverages the
core competencies of both companies to provide a compelling value
proposition to ENS clients”, said Sunny Singh CEO of Edifecs.
ENS provides Internet and e-commerce connectivity between thousands
of health care providers such as physicians, hospitals, clinics,
practice management software vendors and third party commercial
payers. ENS is currently processing transactions annually from more
than 200,000 providers.
ENS provides services to healthcare providers and payers that eliminate
paper and labor-intensive process in the administration of healthcare
delivery. ENS provides and supports Health-e Network®, a full cycle
suite of products and services designed to increase productivity,
automate, and streamline workflow between providers and health care
payer organizations.
Edifecs is a proven provider of solutions for rapidly deploying
and managing today's trading partner networks. The Edifecs enablement
solution suite encompasses the CommerceDesk® SpecBuilder™, and XEngine
product families -- all designed to reduce cost and time-to-market
for companies deploying trading partner networks. The Edifecs HIPAA
solution provides enablement technologies to accelerate the implementation
of HIPAA and healthcare trading communities. HIPAA-Desk (www.HIPAADesk.com),
powered by Edifecs' CommerceDesk, is the first free and full service
HIPAA compliance checking & testing facility for the healthcare
community.
Founded in 1996, Edifecs serves an installed base of more than
1,200 customers and partners including numerous B2B providers such
as GE Global eXchange Services, Microsoft, Harbinger/Inovis, Quovadx,
Sterling Commerce and TIBCO. Edifecs healthcare clients include
Abbot Labs, Baxter Healthcare, BCBS Association, BCBS of Alabama,
BCBS of Georgia, HealthPartners and many others. Edifecs is a technology
partner for more than 30 industry consortia including RosettaNet,
ebXML, UN/CEFACT, CompTIA, and OBI. Based in Redmond, Washington,
Edifecs is privately held. For additional information please email
sales@edifecs.com.
SpecBuilder, CommerceDesk, and XEngine are trademarks of Edifecs.
All other company and product names are the property of their respective
owners.
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