Here are my comments and editorial changes (minor corrections) in that order, to Dr.Kepa's update of the Transaction Compliance and Certification white paper.
General Comments: -------- 1. There is quite a bit of repetition about avoiding having to repeat testing if you go through certification. It was about 3 times in Subtopic 1, same # in Subtopic 3, of Background section for example. 2. Testing for certification seems to be equivalent to "beta" testing if I understand it right. 3. Many people will be nervous to use production data to test with the certifier, without a good privacy procedures and policies in place before testing. Editorial (typographical and minor grammatical) changes: ------------------------------------------------------- 1. The last sentence at the end of the page 3, "Even in the best trading partner test scenario... making it impossible to test using trading partner data.", the word 'impossible' can be replaced with 'very difficult'. 2. The last sentence before "Business Drivers" section on page 4, "The continuous testing of the production data stream, ... pretiodic re-certification of the basic HIPAA compliance...." should mention "due to changes and addenda or newer versions of the IGs" or it will be an overkill, if nothing changed and you need to be recertified. 3. In paragraph 2 of page 6, of Subtopic 1 of "Background" section, the word "will" before "culminate in compliance certification" should be changed to "may". 4. Page 7, the "Certification" step in the flow-chart, seems like beta testing to me, as I mentioned in my general comments. 5. Page 8, 2nd oval representing certification is again like beta testing to me. I know I am repeating. 6. Page, 12, paragraph 2 after the bullet items, the sentence, "This sub workgroup presents information that its members are aware of, and was obtained without conducting surveys" shoule mention that the information was provided by the different vendors. 7. Page, 12, Subtopic 6, 2nd paragraph, the word "the" before "transaction compliance testing product or service..." in the 2nd sentence may be changed to "a". 8. Page 14, Subtopic 2, End of the "Assumptions" should end with "of testing" after "types". 9. Page 18, 4th sentence form the bottom, the word, "methodic" should be "methodical". 10. PAge 19, "Value in Accepting" section, 2nd sentence, "If instead if.." should be "If instead of...". Please feel free to contact me if I can explain any of this better. Regards, Rama. -- -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 8:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: updated white paper Hello, I added the information exactly as you sent it to me. Ed Hafner is reviewing the updates that I made for Foresight and then I will be sending it out to the group. It should be sometime early next week. Thanks!! John _______________________________________________ John Lilleston Technical Supervisor Verizon Information Technologies, Inc. Healthcare Solutions 813-979-3225 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.VerizonIT.com/ _______________________________________________ "Pradeep Ittycheria" To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <ipradeep@applabs cc: .com> Subject: updated white paper 05/22/2002 05:46 PM Does anyone have the updated testing white paper- with the new vendor information and the changes - would be nice to have this before tomorrows call. ********************************************************************** To be removed from this list, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that it may take up to 72 hours to process your request. ********************************************************************** To be removed from this list, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that it may take up to 72 hours to process your request. ********************************************************************** To be removed from this list, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that it may take up to 72 hours to process your request.
