HIPAA is an industry standard for administrative and financial health-care transactions.

HIPAA is based on the X12 standard. For more information about X12, see EDI-X12 Library.

In addition to the regular parser, serializer, and schema components provided in every

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library, there is a special HIPAA library component that validates input messages and generates acknowledgments. The special component implements the complete set of validation and acknowledgment types defined in the HIPAA standard up through version 5010A1.

You can use the Library editor to edit the HIPAA Library object.