MediClick Proclick EDI Overview And Security Issues
MediClick Proclick EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) feature lets hospitals exchange EDI transactions with vendors. Vendor information and medical center (“customer”) information must be set up for EDI processing. MediClick Proclick EDI system maintains an administrative database of vendors who currently have EDI enabled for various document types (e.g., EDI 850, EDI 810). To exchange EDI transactions with one of these vendors, a medical center’s information for a vendor in its database must be associated with the EDI information for the vendor in the database. A medical center site can perform this association, after discussion with the vendor to obtain the relevant EDI setup data.
MediClick Proclick EDI Security
EDI setup features are generally controlled by the role object “EDIAdmin.” Editing EDI vendor relationship records requires the minimum setting of Modify. Other activities such as deleting vendor relationships require the setting All. Hospital accounts on the vendor relationship records are controlled by the role object “Vendors.” The setting to display hospital accounts is All. The role object “VendorsMM” controls display, creation, copying, and editing of vendor EDI buy from location records, except for buy-from locations’ representatives, which is controlled by the role object “BuyFromLocReps.” Security settings depend on the action; for example, to delete a record, the “VendorsMM” setting must be All. To modify a record, the setting must be Modify.
EDI Transaction Document Formats
The ANSI X12 committee creates formats for the different document types used in Electronic Data Interchange (EDI). ANSI publishes each document format as a standard. Standards for many documents types are available for use in different industries. A standard format for a document type contains information fields arranged into several categories. Many vendors use the published standards for the following document types:
- Purchase order documents (EDI 850).
- Purchase order confirmations (EDI 855).
- Advance replenishment notices (EDI 856).
- Invoices (EDI 810).
- Vendor catalog imports (EDI 832).
- Payment documents (EDI 820).