WASHINGTON DC USA -- HEALTHCARE UPDATE NEWS SERVICE (TM) - MAY 28, 2003: Train for HIPAA, http://www.TrainforHIPAA.com, announced today that it is releasing new courses on HIPAA Compliance for Employer and Health Plan Call Centers, Claredi Outbound Testing and Certification, and Advanced HIPAA Compliance for Pharmaceutical Sector: The Research Process. Train for HIPAA will exhibit at the HIPAA Summit West, June 4-7, 2003, in Seattle WA.

Train for HIPAA offers the full continuum of HIPAA workforce training solutions. Train for HIPAA is an affiliate of the HIPAA Summit Conference Series, http://www.HIPAASummit.com, HIPAA Colloquium at Harvard University, http://www.HIPAAColloquium.com, and HIPAA Audioconferences, http://www.HIPAAAudioconferences.com.

Train for HIPAA has posted the following new courses at http://www.TrainforHIPAA.com:

• Advanced HIPAA Compliance for Pharmaceutical Sector: The Research Process
• Claredi: Outbound Testing and Certification
• Role-Based: HIPAA Privacy and Security Training for Employer Call Centers
• Role-Based: HIPAA Privacy and Security Training for Health Plan Call Centers

Train for HIPAA will exhibit at the upcoming HIPAA Summit West, June 4 - 7, 2003, in Seattle WA.

• Advanced Strategies in Responding to HIPAA Investigations and Enforcement Actions
• An Extensive Suite of HIPAA Security Courses
• The following HIPAA Transactions Testing Courses:
  • Advanced HIPAA TCS - Beyond the Basics of Transactions
  • Claredi: Inbound Testing with Wibbler
  • Claredi: Data Gap Analysis with HIPAAmetrics
  • Foresight: Test Data Generation Using EDISIM
  • Foresight: Enabling Trading Communities Using the HIPAA Validator CommunityManager Web Service
• The Following HIPAA Transactions, Code Sets and Identifiers Courses:
  • Introduction to EDI and HIPAA
  • Introduction to ANSI X12 and HIPAA EDI Standards Documentation (Part One)
  • Introduction to ANSI X12 and HIPAA EDI Standards Documentation (Part Two)
  • Exercise: Building a Sample 837 Professional Health Care Claim
  • Introduction to EDI Envelopes
  • Exercise: Building Envelopes Around a Transaction
  • EDI Acknowledgments
  • Introduction to Financial EDI
  • Exercise: Building a Sample 835 Health Care Claim Payment/Advice
  • HIPAA Implementation Guide Change Process Overview

A large orthopedic medical group, a major pharmaceutical manufacturer, a major software and outsourcing company, a prominent academic medical center and other major institutions, including SSM Health Care of St. Louis MO (a multi-facility health system and first winner of the Malcolm Baldrige Quality Award).

Go to the Train for HIPAA website or contact: Matthew Feigenbaum at 888-228-5021 or via email at mfeigenbaum@trainforhipaa.com.