Martin Heller
Contributing Writer

Adeptia takes integration approach to HIPAA and HL7

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Apr 8, 20091 min

Adeptia Integration Server allows 'any to any' data flow; adapters for HIPAA and HL7 simplify the health care case

Shortly after I first discussed HIPAA and HL7, Raman Singh of Adeptia contacted me to show me Adeptia Integration Server (AIS) and its ability to import HIPAA 837 claims. A few weeks later, he contacted me again, this time to show off its HL7 capabilities.

The Adeptia Integration Server allows “any to any” data flow, as shown in the following diagram:

Adeptia supports HIPAA and HL7 through specialized adapters or accelerators that include data dictionaries and schemas, mapping rules, and so on. Internally, AIS converts the EDI records to XML, applies its mapping processing rules, converts the output to the appropriate form, and sends it to the appropriate places.

From watching the demos, it looked to me like both the HIPAA and HL7 handling are straightforward to set up. On the other hand, Adeptia currently does not seem to have a solution for converting ICD-9 diagnostic codes to ICD-10, something that DataDirect demonstrated for me in February.

The Adeptia Integration Server licenses for $16,000 per server per year. The HIPAA and HL7 adapter each cost an additional $4,000 per server per year.

Martin Heller

Martin Heller is a contributing writer at InfoWorld. Formerly a web and Windows programming consultant, he developed databases, software, and websites from his office in Andover, Massachusetts, from 1986 to 2010. From 2010 to August of 2012, Martin was vice president of technology and education at Alpha Software. From March 2013 to January 2014, he was chairman of Tubifi, maker of a cloud-based video editor, having previously served as CEO.

Martin is the author or co-author of nearly a dozen PC software packages and half a dozen Web applications. He is also the author of several books on Windows programming. As a consultant, Martin has worked with companies of all sizes to design, develop, improve, and/or debug Windows, web, and database applications, and has performed strategic business consulting for high-tech corporations ranging from tiny to Fortune 100 and from local to multinational.

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