ebXML Messaging Service

Sure, the VPN is secure, but it’s not point-to-point. And SSL? The encryption algorithm is always the same; with enough traffic, it can be broken. Even if you do manage to get the transaction there successfully, how is it guaranteed? 

Can your trading partner deny receiving the message? Put off “receiving” the message until a later date? This costs money and increases risk.

Secure, reliable, open standards-based data exchange over the Internet::

• Reduce costs of secure transactions. Complete data exchanges over the Internet. Eliminate the need for a VPN or other expensive dedicated connections
• Reduce paper flow, print and mail costs
• Ensure financial settlement in a timely fashion
• Reduce error rates dramatically, allowing for the centralisation of more accurate data

The Xenos ES ebXML messaging service provides the unprecedented security only possible with Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) technology and adheres to strict ebXML MS 2.0 industry standards. For per-partner configuration, the software uses the Collaboration Protocol Agreements (CPA) standard as defined within the ebXML framework, this enables the interoperability across ebXML implementations.

Award-Winning Experience: NAV Case Study

Xenos was named a Medalist at the 2008 British Computer Society (BCS) IT Industry Awards for its work for the Norwegian e-Health Infrastructure. In one of the world’s largest ebXML compliant trading partner implementations, Xenos ES ebXML 2.0 Messaging Service (formerly Xenos terminalONE Transport) provides the secure, intelligent routing and transport of healthcare information and payments data over public networks between 3,000 doctors, pharmacies, hospitals and the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Organisation (NAV). Key facts include:

• Handles payments payload of 26 billion Norwegian Kroner (3.2 billion Euro, $3.9 billion USD), or 5% of the Norwegian national government budget
• Medical Certificates:3.5 million messages/year
  • 2000+ doctors at 750 of 1850 offices use the system today
• Doctors’ request for payment
  • 1100 doctors at 200 offices use the system today
• Hospital and Private Labs Payment request
  • 100% coverage of all organisations
• Pharmacies’ request for payment
  • All 550 pharmacies paid annually 10 billion NOK (1.3 billion EURO)
• EHIC (European health insurance card)
  • Approx 4 million cards delivered
• ALTINN B2B portal for all companies in Norway
  • Exchange of sickness benefit payment information etc.
• Pilot for Electronic Prescription exchange
  • Planned for 19 million prescriptions annually by 2012

Features

• Open Standards. Complies with ebXML MS 2.0 specification, an OASIS standard
• Secure. PKI, coupled with Internet standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL 2.0), prevents non-authorized access to transaction contents and guarantees sender origination using provider non-repudiation
• Authenticates. ebXML MS 2.0 authenticates requested transactions against a registry to ensure that all exchanges with partners are pre-approved
• Interoperable. APIs facilitate integration with back-end Java-based applications and transactions can be exchanged using HTTP or SMTP
• Authenticates every transaction to ensure that no transaction is sent or received unless both the recipient (sender) and the transaction type for that recipient (sender) have been pre-approved via the CPA/TPA (Collaboration Protocol Agreement and Trading Partner Agreement)
• Determines the communications protocols and business rules required for each specific transaction and ensuring that communications are sent using those same protocols and rules
• Secures all transactions with PKI, and unlocking all received transactions with the appropriate PKI key
• Acknowledging receipt of all transactions to the sender
• Re-sends transactions when acknowledgement is not received in defined intervals until such acknowledgement is received, or a timeout period has been reached
• Delivers received transactions to appropriate back-office systems