Well said!
Thanks!
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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