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CORE certification testing scripts enable appropriate healthcare entities like Blues plans to demonstrate adoption. Using the larger IHE framework, the collaborators can demonstrate the path the industry has set to have interoperability within and between clinical and administrative data.

"This project is a great example of how public and private stakeholders can work together to insure that standards are effective in real-world application before implementation," said CAQH executive director Robin Thomashauer.

The collaboration has identified four goals for the 5010 Testing Project, including:

• Initiating industry and market momentum for the adoption of the 5010 HIPAA transaction requirements and the complementary CORE rules certification process;
• Providing an avenue to demonstrate current industry capabilities for HIPAA-compliant administrative data exchange with multi-stakeholder participation through the 2009 North American Connect-a-thon and the 2009 HIMSS Interoperability Showcase;
• Highlighting the 5010 testing options in conjunction with the CORE Phase I and II rules testing scripts and testing tools already available to the market; and
• Displaying private-public collaboration, and the critical role that voluntary, private sector-led efforts like HITSP, IHE and CORE play in the national landscape.

"HIMSS is excited to be collaborating with our industry colleagues on such an important topic, and pleased to host the demonstration as part of the HIMSS 2009 Interoperability Showcase," said H. Stephen Lieber, HIMSS president and CEO.

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