This section provides a brief overview of ECMap functionality and describes how to set up the HIPAA compliance projects and maps using ECMap, a powerful mapping tool that provides support for creating and processing structured information messages. For advanced setup options, refer to the ECMap User’s Guide.
ECMap can handle three classes of formats:
Traditional formats of flat files and databases
EDI Standards: X12, EDIFACT, NCPDP, and HL7
HTML or XML data
You can also import other standards with the EDI Standard Exchange Format (SEF) Import utility. Once imported, you can use these standards like the other standards that are bundled with the product. ECMap lets you perform application-to-application integration as well as Web-enabling XML data and XML-enabling databases.
ECMap lets you create the following:
Transaction maps that perform data conversions between application data and EDI standards
Any-to-any maps that convert data directly from one application to another
Any-to-any maps that perform data conversions between HTML/XML data and application data
Any-to-any maps that perform data conversions between HTML or XML data and EDI standards.
ECMap has the ability to
Automatically generate a set of record and field definitions from a COBOL copybook, an ODBC file, a map, or a special file
Automatically generate an ODBC database table from a set of record and field definitions
Use a wide variety of rule commands, including conditional logic, to imbed business rules and proprietary compliance checks in your map
Use a wide range of SQL commands from within a SQL rule command, allowing direct integration with any ODBC-compliant database
Access functions outside of the product through User Exit rule commands
Perform dynamic map switching at runtime
Perform interactive, real-time transactions
Perform any-to-any mapping, directly integrating diverse application databases
Process large volumes at high speeds, without having to break up and reassemble the data
Translate data independent of file size
Perform data conversions between HTML or XML data and EDI standards
Automatically generate a set of record and field definitions from an HTML form
Automatically create the template for an HTML form from a set of record and field definitions
Dynamically build and populate an HTML form based on retrieved data and an HTML form template
Perform dynamic interactions between an HTML form and the values in a database
Map XML data to a proprietary application
Import customized standards—such as those based on Implementation Guides—and use them just as you use the major standards included with the tool, X12, EDIFACT, and HL7
Automatically create a field from an EDI element during map development
Perform conditional mapping, by associating particular mapping commands to a specific trading partner, to the presence or absence of data and the like
Quickly and easily perform element-to-field mapping for any standard supported by ECMap
Map directly from one proprietary application to another
Create and run special compliance maps to verify that the data a map processes is compliant with the standard used
Automatically generate a batch file that includes all of the switches needed to run the map from a command line
Use the runtime capability of substituting either a new input file or a new output file for the file specified in the map, regardless of whether the files are flat files or ODBC databases
Pass parameters into the map at runtime
Verify compliance with the HIPAA mandate
