There was some very good news for all of those interested in the EMR world.  A new company has announced that they’ll join the EMR certification world. The Drummond Group is there name and they’ve been doing goverment certification for quite a while. You can hear more about The Drummond Group and EHR certification in this interview with the CEO of Drummond Group.

Related to that, you will find the ONC guidance for EHR certification bodies interesting if you’re looking at EHR certification also.

Drummond Group, the B2B test lab, has announced the completion of its 9^th ebXML Messaging Interoperability test, marking the availability of 4 newly certified products. Included in this list for Automotive Retail profiles and the XML Encryption profile is BizManager 3.2 by Inovis.

DGI facilitates interoperability testing by simulating the real-world environment in which the products will be utilized. This ensures that the end users’ problems and related costs in using that product are significantly reduced. Drummond Group offers global testing services throughout the product life cycle and also offers auditing, QA, conformance testing, custom software test lab services and consulting in addition to interoperability testing.

The full press release is available for viewing here.

The Drummond Group has confirmed in a recent announcement that AS3 is the recommended data exchange method for large files.  Not only does AS3 support large files, but secures the payload and transmission of the data over a secure session for B2B content exchange.    Inovis provides secure file transport with certified support of As3 to ensure we can address our customers needs for payroll files, HIPAA data and managed file transfer requirements and are part of the certified solutions for AS3 large files.  The increasing file sizes and goals of businesses to improve the security at the edge of the enterprise is a growin trend in the marketplace, as evidenced in the Drummond announcement. 

Drummond is not the only organization supporting or recommending EDI-INT for secure transaction management, so is X12.  X12 released a recommended implementation guide for securing  and exchanging data between organizations via EDI-INT. 

What is AS3?  AS3 is a secure version of FTP which provides for certificate based encryption and end point management.    AS3 also provides for non-repudiation or confirmation of reciept of the file by a given end point or trading partner.  To get detailed information on the IETF standard you can get more information online @ http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4823.txt about how you can use standards based communication, instead of legacy FTP scripts and propriatary options. 

Drummond Group Inc., the global leader in B2B software interoperability certification, announced that 7 products, including the Inovis BizManager software, are certified interoperable on the AS3 Standard. This was the first time an optional test for Very Large Message Exchange was also executed. Inovis participated in this optional test, which are messages with payloads up to 1GB. Tack this onto the recent release about Managed File Transfer, and you have one very large secure message!

Gartner came up with the term “Managed File Transfer” and defines an MFT suite as one that “helps control all aspects of data movement, ensuring that they’re full managed and secured.” Also, Managed File Transfer can be used to send structured and unstructured messages – whether it be HR information, payroll, financial information, CAD designs, EDI purchase orders, etc. With full tracking of the document lifecycle, a Managed File Transfer solution tracks creation, edits, delivery and deletion. It will also guarantee delivery to the right person at the right time.

So, if you are sending large files and need to send them securely, Managed File Transfer is the way to go.