1. Problem
You are building an EDI (Electronic Document Interchange) solution that requires the use of 5010 HIPAA compliant schemas.
2. Solution
BizTalk ships with
thousands of precreated schemas that support the various EDI documents.
Shipping with BizTalk 2010 are a number of HIPAA 5010–compliant schemas.
These schemas can be accessed using the following steps:
Using Windows Explorer, browse to $\Program Files\Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010\XSD_Schema\EDI.
Double-click the MicrosoftEdiXSDTemplates.exe file to extract all of the schemas (see Figure 1).
NOTE
It can take a substantial amount of time to extract all of the schemas.
The 5010 documents will be available in the HIPAA\00501 subfolder (see Figure 2).
3. How It Works
EDI schemas are identical to
other BizTalk schemas and can be added to any Visual Studio solution.
Generally speaking, they are more complex in structure and contain many
more nodes and elements than other BizTalk schemas. An example of a 5010
HIPAA Schema in Visual Studio is shown in Figure 3.
There are continual updates to EDI schemas. The HIPAA 5010 schemas are
primarily related to Health Care, so given the volatility of health care
laws today, it is very likely that there will soon be another version
to these (and other) schemas.
