The Sybase® HIPAA Accelerator is an add-on accelerator to the Sybase® Adapter for EDI, EDI Server, and Adapter Suite for EDI products. When used in conjunction with ECMap, Sybase HIPAA Accelerator allows for rapid development and deployment of HIPAA-compliant EDI messages in accordance with the HIPAA Implementation Guides and Addenda.
This document is for application engineers and technical consultants who manage Sybase HIPAA Accelerator.
This book describes how to use Sybase HIPAA Accelerator. It is organized into the following chapters:
Chapter 1, “About Sybase HIPAA Accelerator” briefly describes the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and details the Sybase HIPAA Accelerator solution.
Chapter 2, “Working with Compliance Maps” describes how to set up compliance maps, import cross-reference tables from map to map, and run HIPAA X12 data through the maps.
Chapter 3, “Running and Testing Compliance Maps” describes how to run HIPAA compliance maps and enable optional edits to the maps.
Chapter 4, “Troubleshooting Map Errors” describes common errors that HIPAA compliance maps might encounter.
The following documents ship with Sybase HIPAA Accelerator:
Sybase HIPAA Accelerator New Features Guide
Sybase HIPAA Accelerator Installation Guide
Sybase HIPAA Accelerator User’s Guide
Release Bulletin for Sybase HIPAA Accelerator
Additional documents are referred to in the Sybase HIPAA Accelerator documentation to supply you with specific information that supports this product. See:
ECMap User’s Guide to understand and build structured information messages
ECMap Reference Guide to understand and recognize informational messages
ECRTP Reference Guide to use the data transformation engine
Documentation that supports Sybase HIPAA Accelerator can be found on the Product Manuals Web site . Select Sybase HIPAA Accelerator from the drop-down list, and click Go.
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