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Electronic Data Interchange

Resources

scoring guide icon Discussion and Participation Scoring Guide.

Website icon EDISS – Electronic Data Interchange.

Website icon CMS – Electronic Billing and EDI Transactions.

Website icon Health Data Management – Reform Bill to Revamp EDI Transactions.

Website icon Department of Health and Human Services – Electronic Data Interchange and Paperless Processing: Issues and Challenges.

For this discussion, explain how electronic data interchange (EDI) transactions work? Describe a transaction and identify how it impacts policy?

The resources located in the Resources area will help you in answering these discussion questions.

Once you are done, refer to the Discussion Participation Scoring Guide to make sure you have met the requirements of this discussion.

Response Guidelines

Read the posts of your peers and respond to two posts. Then consider the following:

Based only on your peer's post, is there enough information to understand how EDI works? Explain.

Review the response of your peer and compare it to your own. What impacts did you identify that your peer did not? What impacts did your peer identify that you did not?