M2 Systems and Noridian Go Live With HIPAA 837 Institutional Format; M2 Systems Leads the Way in Support of HIPAA Compliancy.Business Editors/High Tech, Health & Medical WritersMAITLAND, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 20, 2002 M2 Systems Corporation has announced that one of its customers, Noridian Administrative Services, a division of Noridian Mutual Insurance Company, is the first Medicare intermediary in the country to put the HIPAA-compliant X12.837 Institutional Format into production with live trading partners. Noridian is a Medicare claims processor for twelve states. "M2 Systems' ENGIN product has allowed us to meet today's HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996, Public Law 104-191) Also known as the "Kennedy-Kassebaum Act," this U.S. law protects employees' health insurance coverage when they change or lose their jobs (Title I) and provides standards for patient health, compliance mandates, and it has prepared us for tomorrow's technological needs, while preserving legacy systems," said Noridian Administrative Services Medicare Operations Manager See datacenter manager. Jeff Harmon. M2 Systems Corporation specializes in providing efficient, cost-saving delivery systems for the healthcare industry. Additionally, M2 Systems focuses heavily on the support of all HIPAA regulation and mandates as prescribed by the Department of Health and Human Services Noun 1. Department of Health and Human Services - the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with health and welfare; created in 1979 Health and Human Services, HHS . Noridian has been a customer of M2 Systems since 1998. Noridian selected M2 Systems to implement intelligent messaging An earlier messaging system from Banyan Systems that ran on NetWare and VINES servers and incorporated Banyan's popular Streettalk directory service. It included a basic mail program, which could be upgraded to the more advanced BeyondMail system. See ePresence. infrastructure based on M2 Systems' ENGIN product. ENGIN supports multiple business applications including an electronic gateway for supporting all information-based transactions (in numerous and various formats), any-to-any connectivity, translation, and interoperability; and an electronic claims clearinghouse solution that provides full and complete support for all administrative and system functions. About Noridian Mutual Insurance Company Noridian Mutual Insurance Company is the licensed Blue Cross and Blue Shield Blue Shield A US not-for-profit health care insurer that is a reimbursement intermediary for physicians. Cf Blue Cross. plan in North Dakota North Dakota, state in the N central United States. It is bordered by Minnesota, across the Red River of the North (E), South Dakota (S), Montana (W), and the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba (N). . Started as separate pre-paid healthcare plans for hospital and physician services, it merged the companies in 1986 as Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota. In 1998 the company restructured as a nonprofit mutual insurance company owned by its policyholders. Noridian has been innovative in its approach to expanding its offering of products and services. It has entered into several joint ventures and administrative contracts and has created subsidiary companies to offer a full range of employee benefit products and services. Although the company continues to do business in North Dakota as Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota (http://www.BCBSND BCBSND Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota .com), its Medicare operations (http://www.noridianmedicare.com) continue to grow. As a result, Noridian Mutual is currently working to reorganize this division as a limited liability company and a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. . About M2 Systems Corporation M2 Systems is an elite software engineering firm focused on delivering online real-time and batch transaction processing Updating the appropriate database records as soon as a transaction (order, payment, etc.) is entered into the computer. It may also imply that confirmations are sent at the same time. Transaction processing systems are the backbone of an organization because they update constantly. to specialized vertical markets. The M2 Systems architecture is the compilation of next generation technology and proven solutions that have been successfully implemented for more than fifteen years in the applications of finance, healthcare and transportation. M2 Systems Corporation represents a true end-to-end infrastructure process linking all ends of the equation together in a single solution concept. M2 Systems offers the only fully distributed Fully distributed A new stock issue that has been completely resold to the investing public and is no longer held by dealers. fully distributed Of or relating to a new issue of securities that has been sold out. network-centric Enterprise Application Integration (EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) Refers to various techniques used to share data and business processes in large enterprises. When companies acquire another organization, disparate information systems have to be made to work together. ) architecture powered by its award-winning technology platform known as ENGIN. The M2 Systems architecture is famous for supporting the "Single Source" vendor strategy, thus eliminating the need for multiple vendors and different interfaces. All applications are easily and efficiently integrated using M2 Systems' rapid deployment platform, thus maintaining its leadership role in the Enterprise Application Integration market space. For more information about M2 Systems Corporation, contact an M2 Systems Account Executive at 407.551.1395 or visit us on the worldwide web at http://www.m2-corp.com. Copyright Notice: Copyright(c)2002 M2 Systems Corporation. All rights reserved. All company names and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies or owners. |
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