Standards

X12

The objective is to use agreed upon structure for communicating the data in business documents. Each organization that maintains a set of standards provides a full set of documentation and definitions of each version of their standards. The following are brief introductions to some of the standards:

X12 standards are EDI standards developed by the Accredited Standards Committee (ASC) X12. The ASC X12 are chartered by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).

In the X12 standard, a transaction set contains the data for a well-defined business function (for example, a purchase order). There are more than three hundred X12 transaction sets used by more than thirty thousand organizations for nearly every facet of business-to-business operations.

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is a specific set of messages based on the X12 standard, which is used for healthcare-related information exchange.

EDIFACT stands for Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce, and Transport. EDIFACT refers to a set of international standards, directories, and guidelines for the electronic interchange of structured data between separate computer systems. The EDIFACT standards are supported by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UN/ECE).

Flat File standards are used to validate Flat File data.

XML standard is used to validate XML data and to create HTML reports of validation results.