Security/Connectivity Workgroup

The Security and Connectivity Workgroup helps you connect to your trading partner securely and effectively for HIPAA compliant transactions.

Our tools include:

A list of the security and connectivity methods that your trading partners support.
Guidance on transaction packaging methods for Collaboration members and the market in general.

Work Products

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Preferred Connectivity Glossary of Terms

Minnesota HIPAA Collaborative Member	Recommended Connectivity Methods
Allina Hospitals & Clinics	Virtual Private Network PGP encrypted FTP Frame Relay Private Circuit Point to Point
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association	FTP over SSH HTTPS
Fairview Health Services	PGP encrypted FTP FTP over VPN Frame Relay Private Circuit
HealthPartners	PGP encrypted FTP
Mayo Clinic	PGP encrypted FTP
Medica	Connectivity Methods not yet available
Minnesota Department of Human Services	Connectivity Methods not yet available
Park Nicollet Health Services	FTP over VPN PGP encrypted FTP
PreferredOne	PGP encrypted FTP

Recommendations

Recommendations for File Size Limitations

Some of the ASC X12N Implementation Guides contain recommendations relative to maximum file sizes per transaction type. The Collaborative supports these recommendations until either ASC X12N or DHHS publishes further file size limitations.

Recommendations for File Naming Conventions

HIPAA regulations, the ASC X12N implementation guides and Minnesota regulations are relatively silent on the subject of naming standards for the generation and transmission of HIPAA-compliant transactions. In the absence of any such purported standard, the Collaborative felt it was valuable to propose a file naming convention that seems logical, intuitive and easy to execute.

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