We are currently planning to replace our legacy A/R Clinical applications with a new 
software.  Due to the size of our corporation it is going to take quite some time to 
implement this new system.  We are in project planning phases right now

My question is on our legacy systems.  I was in a meeting not long ago and one of the 
other providers commented that we do not need to worry about getting our legacy system 
compliant by October 2002.  They stated somewhere in the transactions standards there 
is a clause on legacy systems.   I have read through the transaction standards this 
a.m. and cannot find anything that specific so I am not sure where they are getting 
this information.

The way I interpret the rule is having new or old software doesn't make any 
difference.  By the compliance  date we have to have a method in place to convert the 
data from the old system into the correct X!@ formats if we do electronic transactions 
(which we do).

Am I understanding this correctly?

Any thoughts would be much appreciated!

Thank you.

Cindy M. Nielsen
Department Director, Information Security
Good Samaritan Central Office
Phone: 605-362-3252
Fax: 605-362-3991
email [EMAIL PROTECTED]





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