Industry Standard Supported Transactions
Within the clinical integration space HL7.org is the group that manages and oversees the industry standards and has for
several decades. For specifics and details on all the specifications they manage in healthcare, please feel to visit
HL7 Web Site.
EDI
EDI has been around for several decades and is used across many industries. While there are MANY platforms and companies.
iDaaS is in no way attempt to replace any of these systems. The intent for iDaaS with EDI is all about our helping achieve our
core mission around "data as the asset." The iDaaS platform will enable organizations to parse, process and build specific EDI messages
needed to support critical areas of healthcare.
HL7 Version 2
HL7 is the oldest standards in healthcare for enabling
systems integration, their focus is the clinical care side of
the industry and they only handle specific billing related transactions as part of supporting the clinical services
they support. HL7 is a very legacy based standards specific to the way communications occur. The HL7 v2 message
standard has been a long standard for the clinical industry and vendor platforms to communicate for decades.
It is often known as quasi standard throughout the healthcare industry due to its lack of hard and fast rules
and openness for vendor augmentation. It has evolved from version 2.1 to its most current version 2.8 and
is still being very actively enhanced. HL7 v2 communication involves a client-server based communication model
known as MLLP (Minimal Lower Layer Protocol), the expectation is that the server is running one hundred percent
of the time to receive transactions. As part of its communication it requires that every transaction is specifically
acknowledged or negatively acknowledged during processing. Finally, healthcare systems and integrations typically
involve a FIFO based messaging pattern, every message must be processed in order.
FHIR
FHIR, Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources, is the modern current healthcare industry standardization approach to
move healthcare from the dark ages of client-server connectivity towards a REST based set of capabilities.
Unlike other attempts to modernize clinical integration standards FHIR is the future. It has been around for several years
and already has a very large vendor community supporting and adopting it. The industry adoption from 2020 going forward
adoption will dramatically increase with government mandates from CMS directly naming it as the means of compliance.
We have decided to focus on what CMS has defined as the standard for Interoperability and Patient Access final rule.
NCPDP
NCPDP has been around for several decades and is used across many industries. While there are MANY platforms and companies.
iDaaS is in no way attempt to replace any of these systems. The intent for iDaaS with NCPDP is all about our helping achieve our
core mission around "data as the asset." The iDaaS platform will enable organizations to parse, process and build specific NCPDP messages
needed to support critical areas of healthcare.