RE: XML version of 278

[David Frenkel]

Title: XML version of 278

Martin, You might also mention there are different several hundred ‘flavors’ of XML.   Regards,   David Frenkel Business Development GEFEG USA Global Leader in Ecommerce Tools www.gefeg.com 425-260-5030 -----Original Message----- From: Martin Scholl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 11:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: XML version of 278   It is completely up to any organization what they want to do with transactions, once they are "in house". To the outside world, you have to use X12N EDI. That's the law and XML would have been nice, but HIPAA was conceived in the late eighties, early nineties when XML was still a relatively unknown technology that IBM (?) developed. What you do after you receive EDI transactions is up to you.  There are many players, who convert EDI into XML. Microsoft BizTalk for HIPAA is XML centered, AmericanCoders has a EDI to Java XML solution, so does GoXML. XML has some advantages. Basically it is capable of addressing the nested structure of EDI documents and with an intelligent choice of the tag names, it makes more sense then cryptic EDI qualifiers. There are a whole lot of tools available to work with XML. It is hip and you can find many resources for XML, human and otherwise. Is it such a great advantage to convert one nested format into another? I don't know. You need probably to store the information into a database and most databases cannot handle XML natively. Be sure you understand the advantages that an XML solution is supposed to give you.  If you don't see them, they might not be there. But one thing is for sure, you cannot replace HIPAA EDI with XML. That would take an act of Congress and years of preparation; and you can imagine how long that would take. Martin Scholl [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.HIPAASuite.com 301-924-5537 Voice 301-570-0139 Fax -----Original Message----- From: Tatge, Ellen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 1:53 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: XML version of 278   As part of the web enablement project for our health plan, we have contracted with a business associate to develop the 278 Authorization request/response.  Our associate has developed an XML version of the 278 transaction for another client.  I am not sure of this other organization's status as a covered entity under HIPAA, but this seems to be outside the dictates of HIPAA compliance for covered entities.  Any opinions on this?  Are there any covered entities planning to use XML for HIPAA transactions? Thank you. 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