[ebxml-mktg] Fwd: Re: EDIINT best practices workgroup

[James Bryce Clark <jbc@lawyer.com>]

Thought you'd enjoy this.   JBC
   
> From: "Anthony Mercaldi"
> <amercaldi@msn.com>
> To: "WEDI SNIP Security Workgroup List"
> <wedi-security@lists.wedi.org>
> Subject: Re: EDIINT best practices workgroup
> Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 13:11:07 -0500
>
> Rachel, I must agree with you 100 percent. I not only participate in the
> working groups for ebXML, I'm also involved with a project called eMerge.
> This is an international creation of insurance transactions as a whole.
> It is being lead be ACORD
> http://www.acord.org Not only is
> Healthcare 10 years behind the scene, but insurance on the whole is. I
> find Insurance to be slower moving on change, then the government. Check
> out that site and you will see the wall we face on implementing EDI. At
> least the government mandated transactions to become compliant with
> HIPAA, but the rest of the insurance industry P&C, Large Commercial,
> Auto, etc. has it in their hands on the implementation of 
> standards.
> So it's been a good luck battle for years.....
>  
> Regards
> Anthony Mercaldi
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: Rachel Foerster
> > To: WEDI SNIP Security Workgroup List 
> > Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 10:33 AM
> > Subject: RE: EDIINT best practices workgroup
> >
> > Why on earth does the HCEC want to focus on EDIINT rather than the far more robust ebXML Message Specification. ebXML is payload agnostic and supports a much greater capability for reliable secure messaging over the Internet. It supports not only EDI (X12 and EDIFACT) but XML messages as well. As usual, it appears that health care is 10 years behind the rest of the world vis a vis the use, application and deployment of information technologies to enable more effective and efficient business processes.
> >  
> > Rachel Foerster 
> > CEO & President
> > Rachel Foerster & Associates, Ltd. 
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> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David Frenkel [mailto:gefeg@att.net]
> > Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 9:37 PM
> > To: WEDI SNIP Security Workgroup List
> > Subject: EDIINT best practices workgroup
> >
> > EDIINT Security Best Practices in HealthCare Workgroup Formed HCEC workgroup for EDIINT Best Practices in Healthcare is currently being formed. If you are using EDIINT or plan to use EDIINT for secure electronic transactions via the Internet and would like to participate in this workgroup, go to http://www.hcec.intranets.com and select "Discussions" on the menu. To request to join this discussion group by sending an email to garren@hcec.org 
> >
> > Regards,
> > David Frenkel
> > Business Development
> > GEFEG USA
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