HIPAA TCS standards provide business intelligence opportunities

Generally, when administrative simplification is mandated by a government agency, the result is enhanced organizational complexity. However, in the case of an exception proving the rule, the enactment of the HIPAA Transaction Code Set (TCS) requirement for electronic data interchange (EDI) has created an opportunity for savvy administrators to tap into a standard flow of data.

"Transaction-based business intelligence is the use of standard healthcare transactions to provide actionable information about the data that is entering and leaving an organization, independent of the sending or receiving systems," said Dr. Joseph Nichols in a presentation yesterday at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference.

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