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Use the formats, forget
the fees!
SolAce Secure Wire is being actively developed to be a complete
Internet EDI gateway and portal product. Our native messaging bus is based on features in IETF's AS2 Internet
EDI (EDI-INT) protocol. AS2 is simply a point-to-point file transfer protocol with less features than FTP. FTP is not a messaging solution. SolAce Secure Wire is a mix of the best features of FTP and AS2, and is NOT an attempt at creating an AS2-compliant solution.
A New Challenge
The HIPAA regulations bring new challenges to organizations
that trade electronic healthcare transactions and transmit
medical data over a network. Organizations need to securely
and reliably transfer EDI transactions and other types of
data files, and HIPAA mandates that strict security measures
be in place to ensure confidentiality, privacy, integrity,
reliability, and a tamperproof audit trail.
HIPAA
also brings new threats and opportunities to the marketplace.
The HIPAA Transaction Rule mandates that all provider/payer
transmissions be in standard transaction formats, providing
limited exceptions only to clearinghouses to do conversions
into those formats. Traditionally every entity that dealt
with electronic transactions has implemented different standards.
HIPAA says that everyone has to speak the same language, in
essence.
HIPAA
has created a huge gap in the traditional marketplace.
Technology and people will fill this gap with tools and services
to fulfill the promise of administrative simplification.
Ivertex is at the forefront of these efforts and is dedicated
to providing the best and lowest cost solutions to providers
and payers.
The Solution
HIPAA standard transaction formats are the future!
Payers and providers can use the Internet as a low-cost connectivity
option, and communicate without any fees using a messaging
product designed for the HIPAA Security Rule. This works perfectly
when the payer and provider can generate or process data in
the standard formats. A direct link solution gives the provider
and payer full control, and results in a much more efficient
and cost-effective solution in the long-term.
SolAce Secure Wire is that secure messaging product designed specifically
for the HIPAA Security Rule. SolAce Secure Wire is designed as
a framework for secure and reliable messaging, where the connection
is ubiquitious (always on), the protocols are irrelevant as
long as they are working, and everything is easy to diagnose
when something fails. The technology exists to make secure
and reliable messaging a reality, so why is it so difficult
and expensive to transfer a file these days?
SolAce Secure Wire frees up your organization to focus on the data processing,
rather than the messaging and connectivity functions where
most EDI teams spend a majority of their time. You have full
control over all aspects of the product via a web-based administration
interface. We have integrated it with existing FTP servers
and claims adjudication systems in a matter of hours, not
months.
A Unique Opportunity
SolAce Secure Wire represents a unique opportunity to the provider
and payer communities. This unique tool makes it possible
to have direct links between provider and payer, with a centralized,
point-to-point, or hosted 3rd party network model. The provider
can generate a HIPAA compliant transaction (see our SolAce EMC
product), then deliver it to the payer directly. The payer
can process the provider's transactions and produce a HIPAA
compliant response, which the provider can receive or pick
up from the payer directly. It's simple, effective, and free
of intermediaries. The more payers that can receive claims
directly, the better the system works for both payers and
providers.
The
cost of your Internet connection is all it costs anyone. There
are no transaction fees, no clearinghouse fees, no license
fees, no exclusive contracts, and no private networks to secure
and maintain for anyone. SolAce Secure Wire is open source, with
a top-notch team of Internet EDI experts backing the product.
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