This WEDI SNIP Business Issues Subworkgroup conference call
was conducted from 3:30 - 4:40 PM Eastern time on Tuesday, March 19, 2002.
Cochair Zon Owen presided.
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(1) WEDI SNIP Conference Report.
Zon asked those who attended the recent WEDI SNIP Conference
in Baltimore for some feedback on their experiences there. Overall, the
meeting seemed to be well-received, with about 200 people attending. The
testing presentation was quite good. ASCA and the Freedom of Information
Act were discussed, and there is some concern that competitors will be able
to use the ASCA requests to develop prospect lists. Stanley Nachimson
discussed HHS' commitment to HIPAA. On the second day, Bruce Horn made an
excellent PowerPoint presentation that summarized the findings of the many straw
polls that were conducted on the first day. This presentation and other
items are now posted on the SNIP web site under the "Work Products"
submenu.
(2) Issues Database (IDB).
Zon reviewed the open items on a 01/28/2002 version of
this list. There was no group input regarding any of the proposed
responses.
(3) White Paper Status Reports.
(3-A) Contingency Planning: This group was
organized last November with Peter Barry, Zon Owen, and Kepa Zubeldia as
participants, among others. They have not started a white paper yet,
but they have helped organize and conduct related discussions at the recent
WEDI SNIP conference in Baltimore and at the HIPAA Summit II West conference in
San Francisco.
(3-B) Identifiers and EDI Addressing (AKA
"Routing"): They have started four papers. One is on Identifiers,
one is on EDI Addresses, one is on Trading Partner Profile Data, and one is
on Discovery of the Trading Partner Profiles. For identifiers, DUNS, EINs,
and NAIC numbers all have some advantages, but uniqueness is essential.
They are borrowing heavily from prior work by OASIS, UN/CEFACT, and ebXML in
their documentation of the TP profile data requirements, and the use of "ZZ"
qualifiers may present some special challenges. The profile discovery
process could involve a national registry or some sort of search
mechanism.
(3-C) IG Selection: They have been pushing their
industry survey at payers and providers, and have received about 20 responses
from each group thus far. Jan Root is compiling data from the responses as
they arrive.
(3-D) Data & Code Set Compliance: Liza Moran
asked what we need to do to complete action on the Data & Code Set
Compliance WP that she updated in January. Zon noted that this will
require BI SWG review, Transactions WG review, and SNIP Steering
Committee review, at least.
(4) Other Stuff.
Someone asked about the desirability of "companion documents"
to the official HIPAA Implementation Guides. Do we recommend that these be
developed and used? Another participant noted that their group (in New
England) is doing this for the 837 and the 835.
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These minutes were prepared by Zon Owen.
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