May 2006 Newsletter

Learning the Language of Business

By: EDI Project Leader

Every day, Quadax transmits millions of dollars worth of claims to insurance companies all over the country, from hospitals and physician offices alike. Performing this task daily requires dedicated detail-oriented people, perseverance, an effective quality control process, and sometimes a lot of caffeine. It also takes a system that handles all of these claims in an efficient and controlled manner.

Quadax is getting ready to take the next step in learning “The Language of Business.” We have invested in a new enterprise version of the Sterling Commerce Gentran Integration Suite™ (GIS), a translation and business process modeling software. While we use translator technology in our current process, this new package will move Quadax in a new direction. The Sterling Commerce GIS software will allow us not only to upgrade our tools that we use to map the data from our key systems, like HARP and Xpeditor, but will also change our company's mindset to the world of business processing modeling. This new package will allow us to graphically build, maintain, and document our internal business process that handles the data being sent to all of our trading partners.

This change in software concept will force us not only to review our current processes, so that they may be programmed using the new package, but will also provide the potential to see other benefits, like a more consistent interface, self-documenting procedures, and other enhancements that will allow us to move towards a more real-time environment for processing claims and other related transactions.

Our goal is to make sure that Quadax can maintain, and even exceed, the level of processing and product satisfaction our clients are accustomed to, while simultaneously moving us forward to handle future transactions, such as attachments. This is just one more way that Quadax is working to make sure your data gets to its destination in the most timely and accurate way possible.