BizTalk Accelerator for HIPAA

Create a powerful foundation for providing health care within boundaries. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) offers important new protections for workers and their families who might have pre-existing medical conditions. With the BizTalk Server 2006 R2 EDI Engine, you get the help you need to implement a BizTalk Server infrastructure customized to support the requirements of HIPAA. BizTalk Server 2006 R2 EDI Engine includes built-in tools to achieve HIPAA transactional compliance through open standards–based communication and system interoperability.

What’s New in BizTalk Server 2006 R2

• EDI Engine includes built-in support to achieve HIPAA transactional compliance (for example, no need to install an accelerator on top of BizTalk)

• Robust configurable outbound batching of HIPAA transaction sets

• Ability to split incoming Interchange into individual transaction sets, as well as preserve entire incoming Interchange in XML format after validation

• Ability to split large transaction sets (for example, multiple claims) into smaller transaction sets

• Rich Business Reporting functionality to reconcile both technical and functional acknowledgements

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