[HAPI-devel] Extending HAPI to support X12

[Aaron B. <aa...@ot...>]

Hello HAPI developers,

Is anyone interested in starting a side-project
to add X12 support to HAPI?

For those not familiar with X12: it is a standard for electronic
exchange of business information.(www.x12.org)

It is used to transmit health insurance claims (the X12N dialect), and
is one of the standards used by HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act) (www.hipaa.org). 

There is now a standard evolving for translation of X12 to XML.


There are currently no open source toolkits ( to my knowledge) that
handle X12 data.
I was thinking of re-using HAPI's HL7 to XML framework for X12 work.

There are deadlines this year for all EMR providers in the US to comply
with HIPAA, so there should be a lot of interest in an X12 toolkit.

Advantages for HAPI would be more developers, and more testing of the
toolkit.

Please let me know.

Thanks!

Aaron Boxer