Emdeon lunches HIPAA Simplified to help compliance
According to the rules issued by HHS on January 16, 2009, all healthcare segments, hospitals, physicians, dentists, pharmacies, PBMs, payers and vendors require to comply with the new HIPAA 5010 and NCPDP D.0 standards by January 1, 2012. This has posed a number of challenges for the covered entities.
Now, Emdeon has launched HIPAA Simplified to be a one-stop resource for the information that covered entities needed for HIPAA readiness. HIPAA Simplified will be a communications focal point as Emdeon helps its customers adopt the 5010 and D.0 standards prior to 2012. The website offers technical gap analyses, simplified business-level downloads, trading partner transition strategy information, frequently asked questions and testing tools.
HIPAA Simplified is classified according to business units across the entire healthcare industry, eliminating the need for complex web navigation or surfing multiple sites. As such, the visitors simply select their line of business and all available resources are located on the page to browse and download. For free. Besides, HIPAA Simplified offers informational and analytical tools, from high-level FAQs, to documents that explain the transition in business-level language, to in-depth technical analyses.
With this, Emdeon may be tagged as the nation’s largest health information network offering a most comprehensive source for HIPAA readiness. Just as with HIPAA 4010 and the National Provider Identifier (NPI), Emdeon is working diligently to deliver solutions that enable its customers to seamlessly meet the new requirements for HIPAA 5010, NCPDP D.0, and ICD-10.
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