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Liberty Corner, N.J. – January 6, 2003
– Concurrent Technologies, Corp. (www.concurrenttechnologies.com),
a leading e-business solutions development and compliance
company, announced today that it has completed a HIPAA-compliance
support implementation for Delta Dental Plan of New Jersey,
Inc. (Delta Dental), one of the Northeast’s largest
dental healthcare plans.
The custom development of Benefits Connection,
the health plan’s online benefits management applications
suite, was a major component of the engagement. Benefits Connection
now provides plan subscribers and dental professionals with
HIPAA-compliant Internet access to plan services, as well
as to details regarding many aspects of their dental coverage,
which were stored in the company’s existing mainframe
systems. Concurrent Technologies (Concurrent) completed the
data analysis, infrastructure enhancement and portal communication
implementation to support HIPAA-compliant eligibility inquiries,
claim status inquiries and associated responses.
“Concurrent played an essential role in
helping us transform our infrastructure and online presence
to support HIPAA-compliant transactions,” said Steve
Stoll, Vice President of Information Services of Delta Dental.
“Due to the fact that Concurrent effectively handled
our requirements for Internet applications that interface
with our external constituencies, Delta Dental was able to
focus on other areas of its business to address customer needs.”
Concurrent first analyzed the data stored in
Delta Dental’s mainframe systems and databases in order
to build the transactions to meet the eligibility and claim
status formats for HIPAA compliance. This critical activity
ensured that complete and accurate data were communicated
between the local health plan’s existing systems and
the Internet. Additionally, Concurrent consultants, programmers
and analysts completed the data mapping and standardization
of code sets. Once the transactions were built, Concurrent
participated as testing partners with Delta Dental to verify
that the transactions could be securely exchanged on a test
platform before migration to production.
Prior to delivering the solution for Delta Dental,
Concurrent evaluated software products designed to support
the creation of valid transactions. Concurrent conducted a
Proof of Concept (POC), completing a comparative analysis
of a number of software products based upon ease of use, ability
to communicate data effectively across a variety of platforms,
scalability, portability and cost. As a result of the POC,
Concurrent recommended Novell’s exteNd™ Application
Server and Composer™ products as the best choice for
Delta Dental.
“Facing impending HIPAA compliance deadlines,
all segments of our country’s healthcare delivery system
need to address critical components of their technical infrastructure
in order to support secure, compliant transactions and Web-based
data accessibility,” states Michael Shirzad, President
of Concurrent Technologies. “Concurrent’s extensive
expertise and resources uniquely position the company to help
payers, providers, hospitals and other industry stakeholders
achieve compliance throughout their entire operations.”
Concurrent Technologies provides comprehensive
HIPAA-compliance consulting, implementation and support services,
including infrastructure assessment, gap analysis, remediation
and systems design. Committed to safeguarding client investments
in their existing systems and databases, Concurrent Technologies
utilizes industry standards such as XML for data definition
and transfer, and leverages flexible, reusable solutions that
can fit a business as it changes and grows.
Delta Dental Plan of New Jersey, Inc. is New Jersey’s
leading and largest dental benefits carrier, providing coverage
to more than one million people through contracts with employees
in New Jersey and Connecticut.. The Delta Dental Plan system
is a national network of independently operated, not-for-profit
dental service corporations specializing in providing dental
benefits programs for employee groups throughout the country.
For more information, visit them on the Web at www.deltadentalnj.com.
Contact: Marketing Dept. at 908.604.6100 or
email: Press@ConcurrentTechnologies.com.
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