2023.1:EDI Integration (Functionality)

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EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) files allow business to transmit information digitally that they would have normally communicated using paper documents. Grooper offers a number of features to easily process EDI files.

You may download the ZIP(s) below and upload it into your own Grooper environment (version 2023). The first contains one or more Batches of sample documents. The second contains one or more Projects with resources used in examples throughout this article. Media:2023_Wiki_EDI-Integration_Batch.zip Media:2023_Wiki_EDI-Integration_Project.zip

About

This article instructs users about features designed to process EDI files. Grooper can do the the following things with EDI files:

• Create a Data Model from an X12 EDI schema using Grooper's Schema Importer.
• Collect data from an EDI file using the "EDI File - Load Data" command.

FYI

Grooper's EDI integration was born from a necessity for Grooper to efficiently collect data from medical EDI files. At the time of writing this article Grooper supports the following EDI schemas: X12 835 X12 837 Dental X12 837 Institutional X12 837 Professional Do you use a different EDI schema? Let us know! We are on the look out for more EDI schemas to integrate into Grooper. Reach out to your Grooper rep to request a new EDI schema be added to Grooper.

How To

Build a Data Model from an EDI schema

Here, we will show you how to use Grooper's EDI integration features to build a Data Model from an EDI schema and collect information from an EDI file.