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Company Profile Chronimed Inc. distributes pharmaceuticals and provides specialized patient management services nationwide for people with long-term chronic conditions, including HIV/AIDS, organ transplants and diseases treated with injectable medications.
Business ChallengeChronimed Inc. was presented with both a challenge and opportunity from a key vendor: a greater volume of business if they were able to handle Electronic Document Interchange (EDI) transactions. This was the perfect opportunity to justify Chronimed's first foray into EDI-based transaction processing.
Alto’s SolutionChronimed selected Microsoft's BizTalk Server for the base platform and Alto for solution design, implementation and training. Alto designed and implemented a solution that draws data from multiple enterprise relational database sources and coordinates the exchange of X12 4010 standards-based transactions. The solution involves fully-automated procedures for extracting, correlating and formatting data to send to the vendor, along with processes that convert vendor responses back into records in Chronimed's database systems. In addition to the EDI document processing, Alto designed and implemented numerous administrative and development tools that make it possible for Chronimed to quickly and efficiently test, tune and maintain the process. Key staff members were trained on BizTalk Server operations in general along with the specifics of the solution, setting the stage for additional EDI opportunities that are already being planned. "We are thrilled to be able to go from zero to EDI-enabled in less than one month." – Steve Squires, Director of Application Development.
Resulting Benefits
- New sources of revenue
- Expanded business opportunities
- Greater efficiency through elimination of manual, paper-based processing
Technologies Used
- BizTalk Server 2002
- XML, XSL and related technologies
- SQL Server 2000 Data Transformation Services (DTS)
- Windows 2000 Server
- Visual Studio.NET
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