Re: AS2 returning EDI

Dick,

This looks like a reasonable approach. If there is a weakness it's the "e.g.". It would be nice if the people behind AS2 would incorporate a standard way of returning a general EDI payload. (The eligibility response is just another edi payload in the reverse direction). So maybe a receipt type of "edi-x12-response" would be a standard way to request an inline edi response. 

Jim

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Dick Brooks 
  To: Jim Hurd ; [email protected] 
  Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2001 5:33 PM
  Subject: RE: AS2 returning EDI


  Jim,

  Using the Generalized Receipts approach you would do the following:

  1. Construct a Receipt-type that contains a "eligibility-response", e.g. HIPAA-ELIGIBILITY-RESPONSE
  2. The sender should include a receipt-disposition-to header along with the receipt-report-type set to HIPAA-ELIGIBILITY-RESPONSE
  3. If you want the response signed then indicate this with the receipt-security-selection header
  4. Send these headers along with the HIPAA X12 eligibility inquiry in the payload
  5. The server should follow the proper behavior to produce the HIPAA-ELIGIBILITY-RESPONSE

  I've attached a simple HTML form to demonstrate this.

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    -----Original Message-----
    From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Jim Hurd
    Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 10:55 AM
    To: [email protected]
    Subject: AS2 returning EDI


    I would like a future AS2 to clarify how EDI should be returned in the http response. This is needed for healthcare transactions like eligibility checks. I assume that the generalized receipt mechanism could be used, but isn't this important enough to standardize? Are there already proposals to this effect that I am unaware of?

    Jim