Keeping up with changes in Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) messaging standards is becoming more challenging. Many governmental agencies, payers, and benefits managers now require adoption of ePrescription, new versions of HIPAA X12 transactions, and electronic health records.

The Cisco Application-Oriented Networking (AON) Healthcare Services Extension for HIPAA and ePrescription is an innovative approach to healthcare information exchange. This solution greatly simplifies the secure transport, transformation, and reliable delivery of HIPAA-compliant messages directly between healthcare providers, payers, benefits managers, and governmental agencies over the Internet. It provides the ideal platform for information exchange for:

• Delivery and management of patient care
• Benefits eligibility verification
• Claims and Billing
• Electronic prescriptions
• Other administrative functions

Key Features and Benefits

The Cisco AON Healthcare Services Extension for HIPAA and ePrescription replaces legacy server-based messaging, transformation, and data security software with a reliable and scalable network-embedded platform. This complete, easily deployed solution includes:

• A simplified Web-based management console for centrally provisioning and managing HIPAA-compliant document exchange over the Internet
• Full support for HIPAA-compliant X12 and National Council for Prescription Drug Programs (NCPDP) message transformation and delivery
• Hardware and software with built-in system integration support and clustering and load balancing, which simplify operations and reduce the total cost of ownership
• Cisco Unified Communications integration support for policy-driven notification of critical information

The Cisco AON Healthcare Services Extension for HIPAA and ePrescription is ideally suited for Regional Health Information Organizations, Health Information Exchanges, and Healthcare Information Networks. The network-centric approach provides a much more cost-effective, secure, and reliable information exchange infrastructure than an organization can possibly achieve through traditional server software-based solutions.