The HIX protocol is based on the HIPAA standard. In addition, the HIX Library contains HIPAA messages that are relevant to the ASCX12 standard. The messages have Validation Level 1 and 2 only.

The HIX Library message components contain all the relevant variables for the ASCX12 standard. Individual states might require that only a subset of these variables be used. You can configure message variables and rules to address specific state requirements.

The HIX Library is optimized for transaction-based messages and achieves high performance with relatively short messages. If you use the library to run large batches of messages, the performance of the library is not optimal.

You can improve the performance of projects that process large batches of messages by disabling validations for those projects. For example, processing a short message of approximately 1 MB in size with no validations takes a few seconds, while processing the same message with all the available validations might take up to a few minutes.

Size and processing time are not directly proportional. With large messages, the ratio between time to process without validations and time to process with validations might be larger, and the processing of large batches of messages is not optimal even when all the validations are disabled.