I'm new to EDI, In my project I want to create EDI file from EDI design Guidelines. Can anyone help me for creating EDi from guidelines document.
If you are creating an EDI file you must be sending an outbound message to one of your trading partners. Your EDI design Guidelines MUST match theirs e.g. Protocol / Message Version etc so ensure that you are creating the file to their published specification.
There are some tools to create EDI Messages from structured design definitions. The Foresight EDISIM product may assist you here. However I would concentrate on mapping your own business data to the EDI Design Guidelines and to maximise this investment consider as many trading partners as possible that could also benefit from this outbound message.
You want to get as many trading partners using the same translation/map with as little change as possible. It sounds like you need a EDI translator. There are several products but the BOTS program is free. http://bots.sourceforge.net/
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Does anyone know where can I find any kind of technical documentation on Electronic Cash Register interface (ECRi).
It's supposed to be a standard for semi-integrated scenarios, where external application (POS) communicates with a credit card terminal using relatively simple commands (like start sale for $100), without having access to any sensitive credit card details (thus no need for PCI certification).
VeriFone Vx820 Duet is one of the terminals that implements this standard.
I assume communication is performed over TCP/IP, but I can't find anything more.
Is this really a standard, or just a common name for this kind of integration?
Are terminal vendors responsible for this kind of API -or- rather it is some application, that exposes this functionality, and is uploaded to the terminal by specific merchant/bank?
There are a lot of standards for ECR-EFT integrations, but there is no single protocol guaranteed to be implemented on both POS terminal and ECR side.
Generally, recognized standards are:
Polish FROB protocol - the one you're probably asking about is the new polish standard by Fundacja Rozwoju Obrotu Bezgotówkowego, which is supposed to become a part of ECR fiscal certification. You can register for free at the website and access the repository w/ code snippets, simulators and specifications. Kindly note, that the work on specs is still in progress so it may be subject to change. There were also minor bugs in simulators implementation at the time we were working on our own integration project, maybe something has changed since then.
Nexo - European approach to ECR-EFT unification
OPI - Open Payment Initiative
ZVT - German standard, far exceeding scope of current integrations
on the polish market there are a lot of semi-semi-standards, as a lot of ECR manufacturers implement each others proprietary protocols. There are options to implement only a few of them to gain a significant market coverage, but for that you'll have to do your own research and check with customer needs.
Let me know, if you have questions regarding specific markets or usages
I'm developing a Health Care System, and I'm new with HL7. My Question is how can I make my system HL7 (Health level 7) certified? What are the main steps I should follow?
Thanks,
You can become member of http://www.hl7.org community and ask there. As far as I know and what http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HL7 says about certifications there is no such thing as 1 worldwide HL7 certification authority right now (although hl7.org offers some kind of conformance testing).
There are many conformance levels and many integration profiles and many vendors and many legacy systems.
What seems to make most sense is to clearly declare IHE Integration Statement (see http://www.ihe.net/Technical_Frameworks for more) as HL7 and DICOM are rather technical tools, implementation details that nobody really much cares about (besides programmers).
Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE)
...Systems developed in accordance with IHE communicate with one another better, are easier to implement, and enable care providers to use information more effectively...
Also the Googling tip by #sqlab may be very usefull. By looking for HL7 Conformance Statement, DICOM Conformance Statement, IHE Integration Statement you can find many examples of what other vendors do
We use ARIS Business Architect for modelling business process and Sparx Enterprise Architect for technical models like sequence diagrams, component diagrams etc. Is there a way to link the technical models designed using EA from ARIS business process, so that it would be easy to trace the business function end to end.
I believe Aris has the ability export their models in XMI format - which means you should be able to import them (to some degree, into Enterprise Architect). Keeping in mind that there is no one true flavor of XMI that crosses between all tools, so it might get you close.
Failing that Enterprise Architect is able to store hyperlinks in its diagrams / repositories to launch other files from, so you could use Enterprise Architects traceability capability from the technical models up to a reference to the business processes which then link out to Aris at the click of a button.
I understand this is an older question, but hopefully it helps none the less.
I was tasked to check out the feasibility of doing inhouse EDI, as the 3rd party costs are getting out of hand.
In doing web searches on the subject, there is a lot of info about the various documents types and formats and creating them from XML or database files. This looks pretty straightforward. However, I don't see much on the subject of the server to server communication.
The question is, what does it take to set up such as server? I am looking for a 3rd party component that I can run on a Windows server as a server (I see it like as IIS server which just sits there and waits for incoming connections and then does the handshake and accepts the file.) The only thing I have found so far is that MS BizTalk server includes EDI capability.
I have also found Edidev.com which has an AS2 server which looks like it might fit the bill.
I am completely new to this area, and don't want to miss anything important.
There are many different options available when talking about EDI.
The primary components involved in an Full EDI Setup include, a Translation Tool, a Job Scheduler, a Managed File Transfer (MFT) Solution, and a Server.
Now, what most EDI professionals, primarily EDI Oustourcing Companies want the public to believe is that is setting up your own In House EDI solution is extremely difficult and will cost an arm and a leg.
Granted, some outsource options out there really do cost an arm and a leg like Gentran, GXS Open Text, IBM Sterling, and the other mainstream EDI Service providers out there. Others like Liaison, 1EDI Source, and the like are quite a bit more cost effective and have various different support packages out there including cloud based solutions.
The overall truth of the matter though, and getting back to the original point on setting up your own In-House Solution, is that everything that these EDI Service Providers provide can be done In-House at a fraction of the cost. There are open source solutions, free cloud services options, or off the shelf software that can be installed, implemented, and integrated for use with your business systems.
The cost in this scenario is the In-House EDI Specialist to run, maintain, and implement new relationships with your newly built EDI Solution.
One example solution: Open Source Solution
(Free to download, install,& use)
Translation Tool - MFT Solution - AS2 Server
[ Bots EDI Translator - Waarp MFT - OpenAS2 Server ]
bots.sourceforge.net/en/index.shtml
sourceforge.net/projects/waarp/
sourceforge.net/p/openas2/wiki/Home/
There are many other options out there that can be pieced together and customized to fit your specific business needs.
EDI simply defined is the translation and transmission of electronic business documents from one company to another.
The Translation tool is simply taking one data field from one file and putting in the predefined field on the other file.
The Managed File Transfer is the GUI you want to use in order to view transactions, resend transactions, manually download previous transactions, etc.
The File Transfer portion is simply setting up the communication settings between your company and the company you want to send/receive the file. Can be configured as FTP, SFTP, AS2, or even email distribution lists.
I am the former Business Manager of one of those 3rd Party EDI Service Providers, and was amazed at how the industry was able to trick the users into thinking that EDI was so complex and hard to implement, maintain, or even understand.
I am still in the EDI Industry, and currently work as the Business Analyst for a Manufacturing Company doing, you guessed it, In-House EDI.
Most traditional EDI software houses have "enterprise" scale integration options that run on (as) a server. Gentran, TrustedLink, BizTalk..all names that are in that space and are usually a sizable (expensive) investment.
What I use here is Liaison's Delta (translation) and ECS (communication). Both run as client / server. The translation software is a true Windows drag / drop any-to-any mapper that can handle all integration scenarios. This commercial software would run you around $20k. We are currently supporting well over 100 trading partners, doing about 3000 batches of data per day. The system is integrated with our ERP and not only handles EDI but XML, flat file, CSV data as well. Delta and ECS. You might be interested in reading this: My Case Study
If you have your own translation engine (parser) and just want a piece for communication, you can still check out ECS, Cleo Lexicom, or Axway. All have Managed File Transfer solutions that will work for you, and run as a Windows service.
So our server handles AS2 communication, picks up files on schedules, sends data via FTP and FTPs, handles web services via HTTP, and has client utilities to show data coming in and out of the system. It also automatically generates the 997 for inbound transactions. Setup of ECS is very easy. Learning a translator - any translator - can be a daunting task. There are quirks to every one of them. That's where the time will be invested in.
This is a really old question (but then, EDI is a REALLY old technology).
Your transmission software is what is internet facing, and most of your trading partners will use a form of FTP, and your translation software will just pickup the files from their FTP mailbox. NOTE that many trading partners insist of having a Drummond certified FTP server, so this could be the most expensive part of a small EDI setup.
Anyway, the way to set this up is to have your FTP/SFTP/FTPS server (Cleo Lexicom or something similar) accept and/or send the files, and your translation software take over from there.
My company is going to be an HIE and we are figuring out how to exchange our information with other systems. We are located in USA and I see that the current common standard is HL7 V2. Hl7 V3 is not backward compatible to HL7 V2. These are the transactions that we are planning to implement:
o Discharge Summaries
o Progress Notes
o Lab Results
o Procedures/Orders
This whole thing is complicated and I am trying to figure out using bits and pieces of info scattered in the net. So here are my questions:
Should we look at HL7 V3 or V2 implementation?
Are CCD and HL7 V2 compatible? Most of the documents I saw from HITSP talks about HL7 V3.
Where can I find an exhaustive list of data fields which are required for all the transactions above? Is it defined by HITSP?
Do the fields defined for each transaction change depending on whether we go with HL7 V3 or V2?
Any help will be much appreciated!
If you're going to be an HIE, you're going to need to handle both HL7 v2 and v3. My experience is that almost all "real life" data transmission is v2 (I think this is probably because most systems capable of v3 transmission also allow v2 formatting, whereas the older systems cannot handle v3, but this is just speculation). There's a very superficial overview of the core differences between v2 and v3 here, which talks a bit about what fundamental changes are being made besides format (delimited vs xml)
The second part of your questions doesn't really have a definitive answer, and ties in with your fourth question. CCD can be HL7v2 compatible, but it's a lot more difficult and relies on the sender and receiver both having a common understanding on a number of issues (hl7v2 is a very loose "standard"). Here's HL7standard.com's thoughts on the subject:
The short answer is "yes" with the long answer being "it depends."
There are different levels of CDA/CCD documents. It probably would be
possible to create a Level-1 CDA document from an HL7 v2 message,
assuming you had a fairly robust HL7 v2 report of some flavor (MDM or
ORU type of message most likely).
It would be harder to take an HL7 v2 message and convert it into a
Level-2 or Level-3 CDA document. More data is required in those
formats, and that data needs to be structured, not just free form
text.
The CDA is based on the HL7 v3 RIM, and compliant CDA documents will
follow that data model. Mapping from one data model to another can be
challenging.
All CDA documents need to have a responsible party or person who
'signs' the document. At a minimum, the HL7 v2 message would have to
have this information.
Converting a CDA document into an HL7 v2 message is possible, but you
run the risk of losing the 'context' of the data that is in the
original document if it is a highly structured Level-2 or Level-3
document. If the CDA contains nothing more than a textual report and
some patient demographic information, then it can be converted into a
comparable v2 message.
For getting a full list of fields, I'd just purchase the full HL7 standard... and maybe have a look over at bluebuttonplus.org... though keep in mind that v2 can result in some confusion, as message sub-segments aren't always consistently used between different actors. Anyway, I don't think that there are clean answers to most of what you're asking, but at the very least you will really need to handle both formats. I'd also throw in that you may want to look at a product like Mirth or InterfaceWare to handle some of your parsing and testing.
You'll definitely want to take a look at HL7.org. The HL7 standards are now available for free, and a large part of it is licensed at no cost. As far as HL7 version, 2.5.1 seems to be the standard for the v2 space. As stated in the other answer, you'll want to support both V2 and V3 HL7.
If you are looking in to sending the CCD, looking at the same HL7 site search for QRDA, the Quality Document Reporting Architecture, an XML HL7 standard for the transmission of the CDA.
Two other notes on this, you'll want to look at the emerging discussions around QRDA I and QRDA III that are taking place now with ONC, and the revised standards for the CCDA.
Here's a direct link to the, I believe, most recent CDA standard on HL7.org
HL7/ASTM Implementation Guide for CDA Release 2 -Continuity of Care Document (CCD®) Release 1
Finally, you will need to have conversations with the major EHR players such as Epic, Cerner and Meditech. They'll need to be on board with your solution and can guide you through the implementation process. In addition to that, they will need to know how best to set up their systems to talk to yours so they can guide their clients. Without this I'm afraid you'll get no traction.