Christopher,
We have spent unbelievable amount of money and time making the standards machine interpretable.
We chose to use XML. Any representaion is fine, SQL, Excel etc etc.
The hooker is :
a) Ensuring that the "transcription" is OK and QA'ed.
b) Representing and Interpreting the rules embedded in IG's "Engllish" in machine interpretable format.
We have had tears in our eyes doing this. May be we are dumb, but we did not find it easy.
Sanjeev N. Kulkarni
Chief Technical Officer
Advent Software Ltd.
"Christopher J. Feahr, OD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Rachel,
I have a few questions about this...
- What sort of labor is required to convert the plain text version of an
X12 IG into the IMPDEF format?
- How is the logic represented... SQL statements?
- Do commercial translators reliably read IMPDEF documents today?
- Are there other approaches to "machine-readable IGs" in reasonably wide
use besides IMPDEF?
- Will the XML versions of the standards eventually render some of this moot?
Since we would only be talking about a different presentation format, it
would seem that X12 IGs could be translated to IMPDEF without any specific
HHS authorization... right?
(I'm sure there must be a slew of problems with doing this... or we would
have done it. Where is the current discussion taking place within X12?)
Thanks,
Chris
At 03:14 PM 7/16/2002 -0500, Rachel Foerster wrote:
>BTW, a colleague of mine already has the HIPAA 270, 820, 834 and 835 ICs and
>a portion of the 837D in IMPDEF form.
Christopher J. Feahr, OD
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