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Tutorials for HL7, X12, and MySQL

Table of Contents, February 2008

> Supporting Healthcare EDI Standards (X12 & HL7)
> Using XQuery with MySQL
> XML & XQuery Workshop

1) Supporting Healthcare EDI Standards (X12 & HL7)

DataDirect XML Converters provide robust support for X12 electronic data interchange (EDI) and Health Level Seven (HL7) clinical and administrative healthcare data standards. Healthcare payers and providers use DataDirect XML Converters to help expedite the following scenarios and deliver timely and effective patient care:

• Benefit enrollment and maintenance
• Coverage eligibility and core authorizations
• Claims submissions and status inquiries
• Claims payment and notifications
• Clinical care management

We’ve created two new tutorials to get you started quickly with these standards.

• Converting from HL7 2.x to 3.x
• Translating X12 documents to XML

2) Using XQuery with MySQL

Users with MySQL database deployments can now take advantage of all the benefits of DataDirect's XQuery engine. That means that finally MySQL users have access to a standard way (XQuery) to get access to their data as XML.

To see how all this works, and how MySQL users can take advantage of this opportunity, we have created a few examples on our web site; see how easy it is to use XQuery to:

• Extract data from MySQL as XML
• Aggregate it with XML documents or EDI documents
• Update your MySQL data

3) XML-based Data Services Workshop

This spring we'll be bringing you Building Data Services Providing Access to Heterogeneous Data Sources – a workshop where we'll be writing, testing and deploying a solution for a typical data services scenario using XML and XQuery. The workshop covers:

• Transforming XML documents into user-defined formats
• Aggregating XML documents with relational data
• Consuming Web services in XQuery
• Exposing XQuery as data services
• Integrating with non-XML B2B standards, like EDI
• Adhering to XML industry standards, such as ACORD for insurance

We’ll be hosting this complimentary workshop in these cities – Register Today!!

• Chicago - Tuesday, April 1
• DC - Thursday, April 3
• Houston - Thursday, April 17