Jonathan,
I gather by your email address that you are in the healtcare business. Are you involved
with HIPAA at your BC/BS?
Dave Frenkel
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I see many people say... "...traditionally more expensive VAN based EDI" and
that comment gets understood by people outside of EDI to mean... "you can't
use the internet for EDI". How you send someone data (via a VAN, direct dial
modems over phone lines, dedicated lines, FTP via Internet, email attachment,
etc.) has nothing to do with x12. Some companies use VAN's because of the
services they provide, some use them because their customers tell them to and
others choose not to use VAN's and provide those services internally.
True.. some of the leading vendors are building support for XML but it won't
really matter until the industry can build a standard XML purchase order (for
example) that systems will use as standard input and output. Without
that..... your back to translation, transformation, parsing.. whatever you
want to call it.
Thanks!
Jonathan Showalter
Omaha NE USA
402-343-3381
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