TIBCO Foresight® HIPAA Validator® Desktop Standards and Guidelines Reference
Manual
8 | Standards Overview
Standards Overview
Standards ensure that electronic data conforms to formatting rules for sending business
documents between companies using delimited, variable-length fields.
Standards can contain many different transaction types. For example X12 standards
provide rules for hundreds of different transactions, often known by their numbers, like
these common ones:
Invoice
Purchase Order
Shipping Notice
Functional Acknowledgment
Acceptance/ Rejection Advice
provides a detailed list of the standards and guidelines that TIBCO
Foresight products support at some level.