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Axway and Edifecs Form Strategic Partnership to Benefit Healthcare Payors

Tuesday, November 11, 2008 General News
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. and BELLEVUE, Wash., Nov. 10 In order toprovide solutions that make claims and other transaction processing easier forhealthcare companies, Axway, recognized leader of collaborative businesssolutions and Edifecs, leader in data quality and compliance solutions haveformed a strategic alliance. The partnership will help healthcare payors andhealthcare benefit providers improve workflow, making it easier to managetheir businesses and increase their competitive advantage.
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By combining Axway's Synchrony(TM) platform(http://www.axway.com/solutions/collaborative_business_solutions.php) withEdifecs' data quality and compliance adaptors, customers will have acomprehensive business-to-business (B2B) solution that will help them addressindustry standards. The solution will enable rapidly deployed secureconnectivity, specification authoring and publishing, trading partneron-boarding and management, business activity monitoring (BAM)(http://www.axway.com/solutions/technology/business_activity_monitoring.php),and message format and data content validation. It will also helporganizations achieve Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act(HIPAA) compliance in transactions and code sets, with support for validationof WEDI-SNIP Types 1-6 out-of-the-box, and support for easily implementingType 7.
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"Axway's deep expertise in data integration combined with our proven dataquality products, addresses a key problem for many organizations -- managingbusiness-critical data in motion," said Herb Larsen, senior vice president ofalliances at Edifecs. "Axway's and Edifecs' solutions are highlycomplementary, and together provide unmatched capabilities for managing thecomplex business-to-business relationships today's enterprise must support."

"This partnership combines our experience and knowledge to createsolutions that make it easier for our customers to process claims and othertransactions, be compliant with government regulations, and improve customersatisfaction," said Sia Zadeh, director of business development at Axway."We'll bring solutions to the industry that improve business processes, whichcan, in turn, reduce costs and improve responsiveness."

To learn more about Axway's award winning healthcare solutions, visithttp://www.axway.com/solutions/healthcare.php.

To learn more about Edifecs' healthcare solutions, visithttp://www.edifecs.com/hc-overview.jsp.

About Axway

Axway (http://www.axway.com/) is the leading global provider ofcollaborative business solutions. Axway establishes the dynamic connections --within and among enterprises - that make companies easier to do business with.Spanning all industries, over 11,000 organizations in more than 100 countriesdepend on Axway to manage and control their business-critical information inmotion -- improving value chain efficiency, regulatory compliance and qualityof service. Built on a service-oriented architecture (SOA), Axway'sSynchrony(TM) technology features a highly flexible integration and B2Bframework, business and technical analytics and professional services. Axwayalso offers customized solutions for the financial services, life sciences andautomotive industries. Many of Axway's solutions are available in a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model. A subsidiary of Sopra Group, SA, Axway isheadquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona.

About Edifecs, Inc.

Edifecs (http://www.edifecs.com/about-edifecs.jsp) helps organizationsachieve interoperability and return on investment by simplifying the adoptionof standard electronic transactions and deriving business value from tradingpartner communities. 2008 marks 12 years of Edifecs' expertise in providinginnovative technology solutions to over 1000 clients worldwide. Founded in1996, Edifecs is headquartered in Bellevue, WA. Edifecs Healthcare customersinclude 24 BlueCross BlueShield plans, and over 30 Medicaids, state andfederal agencies. Company website: http://www.edifecs.com. Contact: KevinPierce 425-452-0622.The partnership will target organizations providing and administratinghealthcare benefits for individuals and companies. These organizations needto: -- Bring on board and successfully manage thousands of trading partners that submit transactions for eligibility, claims, claim status, enrollments, authorizations and premium payments -- Improve workflow for business processes around development and management of HIPAA-compliant and non-HIPAA data files -- Implement efficient and secure platforms for building and managing complex electronic data interchange (EDI) transactions and create the ability to send large files quickly and easily, as well as perform real-time transactions -- Make it easier to do business with them by deploying a flexible and scalable infrastructure to meet the growing needs of their customers and partners -- Be compliant with all types of current and future regulations

SOURCE Edifecs, Inc.
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