On the question
of storing outbound transactions,
... would the
storage of the outbound transmission satisfy some privacy concerns of disclosure
and the ability to report such disclosure to a patient when that patient
requests such a report?
Ruth
Tucci-Kaufhold
UNISYS Corporation
4050 Innslake Drive
Suite 202
Glen Allen, VA 23060
(804) 346-1138
(804) 935-1647 (fax)
N246-1138
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Well, and further.. Is
there any "standard" that defines how long testing/certification data must be
stored?
I mean from the software
vendor end.. After they are done testing and say they are
ready..
Kepa, any
ideas?
Rachel,
Do
we need to store outgoing transactions?
Joe
However,
The application system (a claims processing system, for
example) must be able to capture, store and make available all of the data
required in any given HIPAA transaction. Another piece of software, whether
an EDI management system, or a clearinghouse or billing service cannot
conjure up data that the application system doesn't serve
up.
So, first the data....then the format. Formatting
without the required data is just junk.
Rachel
Rachel
Foerster
Principal
Rachel Foerster & Associates,
Ltd.
Professionals in EDI & Electronic Commerce
39432 North
Avenue
Beach Park, IL 60099
Phone: 847-872-8070
Fax:
847-872-6860
http://www.rfa-edi.com
Let me spin it
one more way. When we talk about certification we are talking about
the transactions we produce, using multiple pieces of software, our
applications systems to extract data and our translator to format the
data. I don't see this as certifying either of those pieces of
software, but rather as you refer to in your message, certifying the
ability to create a transaction that complies with the HIPAA
standard. Our software cannot produce standard transactions, and our
vendor has no plans of modifying their software to do so. They are
not a covered entity and they believe that it becomes the CE's
responsibility to produce the transaction - not the vendor's software
which is sold as a claims processing system, not a HIPAA standard
transaction producing system.
Kris Owens
923-8108
"You don't know what you can get away with
until you try" General Colin Powell
My opinion is that it's the software that's
certified, not the corporate entity. The software must create/process
complying transactions so the software must be
certified.
In other industries and other areas of electronic
commerce, many of the standards development organizations also create
what's called "conformance" requirements that developers can use to
validate that the software they develop does indeed "conform" to the
standard specification.
This is what HIPAA certification
does.
But, there's another aspect to this. That is, that
software is not "HIPAA" compliant....it's only a tool that enables the
user to process transactions that comply with the specifications. But,
my viewpoint is that software can be certified as having the ability to
process transactions that comply with the guides, but the user can
mis-use or misunderstand how to configure a software and thus actually
create non-compliant transactions.
So, software can be certified, but it's the covered
entity that complies with the law and the
regulations.
Rachel
Rachel
Foerster
Principal
Rachel Foerster & Associates,
Ltd.
Professionals in EDI & Electronic Commerce
39432 North
Avenue
Beach Park, IL 60099
Phone: 847-872-8070
Fax:
847-872-6860
http://www.rfa-edi.com
I'm in the process of creating
a TCI software vendor readiness questionnaire and one of my questions
is if they are certified. But then it occurred to me does the
certification apply to the entity or the application?
Your input is
appreciated.
Natasha Farvan
Sr. I.S.
Project Leader
HIPAA Transactions & Code Sets Project
Manager
Information Technology Group
Oregon Health &
Sciences University
1500 SW First Ave Ste 100B
Portland,
OR 97201
Mailcode: Crown
Tel (503) 494-0561
Fax (503)
494-4626
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