Some of the issues Rachel is describing seem to transcend HIPAA. It's hard
to know how much of this HAS to be written down vs. "nice to have" written
down. The financial commitment to produce something like this would
include the cost of keeping it up to date, and that would be a big,
expensive job. I'm assuming that emerging technologies like ebXML are
going to permit trading partner systems to auto-negotiate a lot of the
procedures that have to be specified in great technical detail and
custom-programmed now. Hopefully the need for ponderous EDI rule books
will be temporary. I agree with Rachel that we need to be careful that we
do not make ourselves standards-rich and cash-poor!
-Chris
At 03:08 PM 8/14/01 -0600, you wrote:
>Rachel, Chris,
>
>How about "HIPAA Supplemental Guide for ACME Health" ?
>
>Kepa
>
>
>Rachel Foerster wrote:
> >
> > Chris,
> >
> > You may have a point. My experience with "implementation" manuals is that
> > they typically should contain everything one company needs to know in order
> > to establish an electronic business message exchange with the company
> > issuing the manual.
Christopher J. Feahr, OD Vision Data Standards Council
Executive Director http://visiondatastandard.org
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