Au contraire re the economic benefits not being a consideration for the HIPAA legislation! The key portion of that HIPAA legislation is administrative simplification with the stated legislative purpose:
"Subtitle F-Administrative Simplification SEC. 261. PURPOSE. It is the purpose of this subtitle to improve the Medicare program under title XVIII of the Social Security Act, the medicaid program under title XIX of such Act, and the efficiency and effectiveness of the health care system, by encouraging the development of a health information system through the establishment of standards and requirements for the electronic transmission of certain health information." In my book, efficiency relates to cost reductions and process improvements. Doesn't that translate big time into economic benefits? Rachel Rachel Foerster & Associates, Ltd. 39432 North Avenue Beach Park, IL 60099 Voice: 847-872-8070 Fax: 847-589-8081 _____ From: Earl Wertheimer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 8:43 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [EDI-L] <ADVOCACY> Why I Don't Like XML William > Earl, don't look to the 800-lb. gorillas to initiate revolutions. It's > unlikely a gorilla would exclusively mandate a gussied-up UML-modeled > core-componentized ISO 11179 compliant XML based e-business standard. I agree, but the 800 lb gorilla (Walmart) had a lot of force in the marketplace. When Walmart pushed Bisynch modems, their trading partners had no choice. When Walmart pushed AS2, again the trading partners had no choice. They make these decisions because they are better economically FOR THEM, not to advance the technology. Any new technology must show good economic benefits, or it will be delegated to some niche. I don't see those benefits with XML or any of the other acronyms being thrown around recently. Show us the benefits... You'll see the converts ;-) > Medicare is another case in point. That's why HIPAA's TCS Rule strictly > mandates - for the most part - crusty, old X12 EDI for claims, payments > and whatnot. Is that why Martin Morrison is stuck with abominations like > 300 megabyte 837 Healthcare Claim transactions? And to this day, 9 years > after HIPAA was promulgated, Medicare itself still can't conform > completely to the "standard" HIPAA EDI guidelines. Wasn't the main culprit the government who mandated HIPAA? In that case, the economic benefits are _not_ considerations. ;-) Earl Wertheimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.spe-edi.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] . Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Access the list online at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
