Health Care Industry Test Data For Compliance Offered By Hipaa Qa And Grid Tools

The joint venture will produce a X12N/HIPAA module for Datamaker™, Grid-Tools test data management solution, and HIPAAdvanced™, a test data management service from HIPAA QA, Inc. Test data solutions will be available through our website www.hipaatestdata.com, which is designed as a completely vendor agnostic, technology agnostic solution available to all industry segments - payers, providers, clearinghouses, software vendors, integrators and outsourcing companies. Whether a covered entity performs their testing internally or via an external vendor partner, we pioneered this service to enable successful 5010 and ICD-10 test data solutions for the entire healthcare industry. Our superior solution can enable robust internal testing while at the same time be used to test your vendor's 5010 software product delivery, test your EDI translator's HIPAA edit interpretations as well as any EDI certification provider's edit interpretations. We guarantee the most interoperable test data available in the market today and any ambiguity arising in our test data products will be immediately verified using X12's interpretation portal for resolution.  

 Mark Lott, President of HIPAA QA, highlights "This partnership will help HIPAA QA deliver the healthcare industry's only full service, PHI secure, test data management service. HIPAA QA consultants bring in-depth knowledge of HIPAA transaction sets and healthcare business understanding coupled with Grid-Tools strong methodologies and test data tools, delivering two pioneering products to the healthcare testing arena." Mr. Lott adds "Our combined efforts will launch HIPAAdvanced™, a managed service capable of delivering state-of-art test data solutions serving the comprehensive needs for 5010 and ICD-10 testing community." Additionally a new X12N/HIPAA module add-on for Grid-Tools industry leading Datamaker™ toolset will be available to the market. The X12N/HIPAA module will contain all the X12 transaction sets, data relationships, legacy healthcare data formats and HIPAA 5010 file interdependencies."

 Huw Price, Grid-Tools Managing Director, says "Leveraging our expertise in supplying test data to protect highly sensitive environments in banking, government, healthcare and pharmaceuticals, we have partnered with HIPAA QA to deliver this very important toolset for the US healthcare market. Datamaker™ contains a sophisticated data masking and data obfuscation solution that de-identifies sensitive and private records so they can be used outside of live production environments.  The tool also delivers automated file generation, conversion and obfuscates or anonymizes PHI data while leaving relationships and referential integrity in place across the data landscape."

 As the original architect of the healthcare's industry's first HIPAA 4010A common EDI interpretation testing and certification program under HCCO (www.hipaaconformance.org) known as CCAP (Common Conformance Assessment Program), Mr. Lott has a unique perspective in what it takes to deliver interoperability to HIPAA transactions and the HIPAAdvanced™ test data solution is a major first step for the industry in this regard. Mr. Lott comments "I look forward to reaching out to all EDI product vendors in the near future to launch a similar interoperability testing effort for the new 5010 transactions sets ensuring common WEDI testing types and X12 interpretations are congruent across all EDI vendor products for the benefit of their end users; the health plans, providers and clearinghouses.”

HIPAA QA Contacts:

HIPAA QA, Inc.

8951 Bonita Beach Rd SE

Suite 525

Bonita Springs, FL. 34134

Office - 866-812-3411

www.hipaatestdata.com

www.hipaaqa.com

sales@hipaaqa.com


Grid-Tools Contacts:

Grid-Tools Limited
11 Oasis Business Park

Eynsham

Oxfordshire

OX29 4TP

Phone Europe UK: +44 (0) 1865 884600
Phone USA: 1-866-563-3120
Web: www.grid-tools.com
Email: info@grid-tools.com

 NOTE: All trademarks and registered trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.