The HIPAA standard does not mandate how to process acknowledgments. You can create your service to perform any processing you require. HIPAA Link Module provides the following sample services to illustrate how to process HIPAA acknowledgments:

For details about these services, see the webMethods Module for HIPAA 9.0 Sample Package User's Guide .

An example of the type of processing you might want to perform is updating information in your external system based on the information in the acknowledgment. To do so, you would map data from the HIPAA acknowledgment to the data format required by your external system, and then send the document to that system. For more information about mapping data from HIPAA acknowledgments (EDI documents) to another format, see the webMethods Module for HIPAA 9.0 Sample Package User's Guide and webMethods Module for EDI Installation and User’s Guide .