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D R Schinderle

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Using EDI (electronic data interchange) to improve the accounts payable department.

Additional paperwork, escalating costs, and an outdated accounts payable system at St. Joseph Health System forced management staff to alter the way the accounts payable department operates. This article describes the process the health system used to automate one of its accounts payable departments by using electronic data interchange/electronic funds transfer (EDI/EFT) technology.

Accounts Payable and Receivable↗

EDI experts realistic and optimistic.

Recently, Healthcare Financial Management contacted five EDI experts to discuss a variety of issues related to EDI and the healthcare industry. Their answers to our questions, presented below, are both optimistic and realistic. Our experts feel that EDI can transform the healthcare industry into a model of efficiency, but their enthusiasm is tempered by the realization that politics, bureaucracy, budgets, and resistance to change can take a toll on even the most ardent of EDI supporters. Nevertheless, they believe that EDI can and will work. In the pages that follow, they discuss why, how, and when.

Attitude of Health Personnel↗