A couple of comments to Kiran's message below:
The use of X12 (EDI) in health in the U.S. is not recent, it's been mandated
by federal law since 2000 under the HIPAA law of 1996. And since the HITECH
portion of the ARRA law the use of HL7 is mandated for meaningful use of
certified EHRs.
I'm curious - please describe the "lot of activity with X12 and EDIFACT
going on now" . . .
Thanks.
Rachel Foerster
847-872-8070
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of KK
Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2013 1:21 PM
To: [email protected]
Cc: EDI--L
Subject: Re: [EDI-L] job Search
Dan,
Now EDI is basically spilt into two major areas.
1) Custom EDI - with Health Care, Service Providers, B2B having their custom
layouts. Most of these also have COTS included.
This is primarily coding using Java/C# with XML
or
2) Users using COTS - Biz Talk, GenTran - convertors. These needs knowledge
of Mapping, & Configuring either of those or other similar tools.
EDI recently has picked up with Mandated use in HealthCare (Health Care Act)
for Payments, Electronic Records that are going in now or shortly.
Also a lot of activity with X12 and EDIFACT going on now.
So even tough it is kind of niche market it is doing pretty good now.
Good Luck.
Kiran
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