Welcome to HCX Specifications Community!

[abhimail]

Welcome to the HCX specifications community!

Health Claims Data Exchange (HCX) is an ambitious open source project that aims to define interoperable protocol specifications to enable a multi-party exchange of health claims information. The HCXs can be thought of as routing switches or email gateways that facilitate communication with the desired level of consistency, security, privacy, and durability. However, unlike the internet or email, this protocol is defined for a specialized use case of exchanging health claims-related information between relevant actors - payors, providers, beneficiaries, regulators, observers, etc.

Inspired by the recommendations of the Joint Working Group of NHA and IRDAI (2019), 60+ volunteers from across the healthcare ecosystem (including Insurers, Hospitals, TPAs, Insurance Technology players and Think tanks) have built the base version of the specification over the last 14 months, as a part of a transparent, collaborative and open effort anchored by Swasth. It was launched for public consultation on September 08, 2021. You can find the launch details and list of volunteers here.

Working groups are currently enhancing the specifications to assimilate feedback and enhancements requests gathered from the community and practitioners since the launch. These requests have come through multiple channels (Open consultation feedback, Working group discussions, feasibility analysis for PMJAY use cases, explicit reach out to the Swasth team etc.). This forum is an attempt to streamline these discussions, set up a more robust open governance process and leverage the power of a true open-source community. We hope that you:

• Provide feedback.
• Ask questions you’re wondering about.
• Share ideas.
• Engage with other community members.
• Welcome others and are open-minded. Remember that this is a community we build together 💪.

We aim to make it one of the best communities with your help. In order to achieve this, we expect the members to follow GitHub's community Guidelines and adhere to GitHub Community Forum Code of Conduct.

It is a relatively new journey. Please bear with us while we get our rhythm right in this journey. The feedback and encouragement that you provide us will help us get better with time. We are attempting to solve a hard, complex problem, and together we shall!

[angshu]

Dear all, please use this thread to introduce yourself and express your interests. Without being prescriptive, I will urge you to create specific threads for discussions - try to keep the heading clear and precise (helps in search), and discussion focused. In a broader discussion, spin off sub discussions to other threads and cross links the posts. Leverage other utils like labels for threads, announcements etc.

As for introduction, my name is Angshuman. I have been involved in technology and OSS for last 25 years or so. For last 10/12 years, I have been working on Global/Public health and informatics systems in Global Health space have been the focus. I am passionate about equitable and appropriate technologies in public and humanitarian space and therefore also in Digital Health Policies. While I am still very interested in technologies (and will ask many stupid question), my primary interest here is around the domain specifications/standards.

[pheonix-devapps]

Can we make these conversations private visible to group members only?

[gopi-g-dev]

Hi. My name is Gopi. I have been involved in building Helath IT systems for 15 years. I am excited about the initiatives in the recent past to digitize and standaridize healthcare information and communication among healthcare participants. Looking forward to learn from the community and contribute what I can.

[pheonix-devapps]

Hi All,

This is Chandrakant Bhonsle, working as Manager Administration in Private Healthcare Organization. I am a novice in this development though I have done basic programming and integration work. Well versed with Indian Healthcare Paying systems.