webMethods HIPAA Module 6.0.2 Feature Pack 1 readme

March 2004

This file provides important information you should read before installing and using webMethods HIPAA Module 6.0.2 Feature Pack 1.

Contents

1.0 Critical Information

2.0 Known Issues

3.0 Usage Notes

4.0 Feature Pack Contents

5.0 Feature Pack Requirements

6.0 Platform Support

7.0 Installation

8.0 Globalization

    8.1 Database Configuration for Globalization

    8.2 Known Globalization Issues

9.0 Documentation

    9.1 Documentation Changes

10.0 Copyright Information

11.0 Contacting webMethods

12.0 Viewing the Product readme

1.0 Critical Information

None.

2.0 Known Issues

None.

3.0 Usage Notes

None.

4.0 Feature Pack Contents

webMethods HIPAA Module 6.0.2 Feature Pack 1 provides support for the following transactions:

-  837-D: Health Care Claim (Dental)

-  837-P: Health Care Claim (Professional)

webMethods HIPAA Module 6.0.2 Feature Pack 1 also addresses fixes to some minor issues. Even if you do not plan on implementing the 837 Dental and Professional transactions, webMethods recommends that you install Feature Pack 1.

5.0 Feature Pack Requirements

When using webMethods HIPAA Module 6.0.2 Feature Pack 1 on the 6.0.1 platform, you must install webMethods EDI Module 6.0.1 Fix 9.

6.0 Platform Support

This feature pack is supported on both version 6.0.1 and version 6.1 webMethods Integration Platforms.

7.0 Installation

For steps to install webMethods HIPAA Module 6.0.2 Feature Pack 1 , see the “Installing the webMethods HIPAA Module” chapter in the webMethods HIPAA Module Installation and User’s Guide.

8.0 Globalization

Because the HIPAA Module was designed to support primarily U.S. regulatory compliance, webMethods has performed only limited testing with non-ASCII data and character encodings and non-English environments. The HIPAA Module does make use of the webMethods Integration Platform’s global support and thus can be interoperated with other platform components in a global environment. Attempts to store, process, or publish non-English or non-ASCII data through the HIPAA Module might lead to problems with your EDI partners or other HIPAA-specific operations. You should not need to perform this sort of processing during normal operation.

If you expect to display non-English data in your webMethods tools, you need to ensure that an appropriate font is installed in your operating environment. You should test to see whether hollow boxes or black squares appear where you would expect to see non-English data, and if you see problems, modify your JRE font.properties file to reference the font on your system.

Information about modifying your font.properties file can be located on Sun's Java website. For the JRE provided with this release, see:

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/guide/intl/fontprop.html

Or refer to the document located at:

http://www.unicode.org/help/display_problems.html.

9.0 Documentation

For webMethods HIPAA Module 6.0.2 FP 1 technical documentation, go to the packages\WmHipaa\pub directory or the webMethods Bookshelf. The following manual is provided as a PDF file:

webMethods HIPAA Module Installation and User's Guide

An index.html file is located in the packages\WmHipaa\pub directory of the WmHipaa package where you installed the server. This file provides links to release information, HIPAA documentation, and other HIPAA related links.

To view the documentation, you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 or later.

9.1 Documentation Changes

None.

10.0 Copyright Information

webMethods Administrator, webMethods Broker, webMethods Dashboard, webMethods Developer, webMethods Glue, webMethods Fabric, webMethods Installer, webMethods Integration Server, webMethods Mainframe, webMethods Manager, webMethods Mobile, webMethods Modeler, webMethods Monitor, webMethods Optimize, webMethods Portal, webMethods Trading Networks, webMethods Workflow, and the webMethods logo are trademarks of webMethods, Inc. "webMethods" is a registered trademark of webMethods, Inc.

All other marks are the property of their respective owners.

Copyright (c) 2004 by webMethods, Inc. All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form.

11.0 Contacting webMethods

Authorized technical support contacts can reach webMethods Technical Services for support via:

  webMethods Advantage Web site

  E-mail: support@webMethods.com

  US Phone: 1-888-222-8215

  Europe/EMEA Phone: +800-963-84-637 or +31-207783640

  Asia/Pacific Phone: +612-8913-1198 or +656-389-3222

Self-service support is also available in the webMethods Advantage Knowledge Base and in the Advantage Customer Forums.

12.0 View readme for Previous Version

You can view the webMethods HIPAA Module 6.0.2 readme on the webMethods Bookshelf.