Encryption and Decryption Sample Profile Overview

The route in this profile do the following:

  • Emulate the insurance company's gateway, to which the provider sends the X-Ray image.
  • Emulate the insurance company's backend that receives the X-Ray, creates a .pdf attachment with the image, and stores the resulting file as a 275 transaction for further delivery back to the provider.

This profile contains the following routes:

On this route, a provider sends a patient's X-Ray image to the insurance company's gateway in the form of the EDI 275 Patient Information transaction with an attachment. The insurance company extracts the Base64-encoded X-Ray, decodes, encrypts, and then sends the image to the Clinical Department.

Route structure:

Route Components Description:

Component Name Component Type Description
275 Intake FS Inbound Picks up a 275 transaction with a binary segment from the file system.
Extract Attachment XE Native Extracts the X-Ray image from the attachment. The image is located in the BDS.03 segment of the transaction in the form of a Base64-encoded string.
Report FS Outbound Stores audit reports in the file system.
Base64 Decoding Base64 Decoding Decodes the attached X-Ray image.
Open PGP Encryption Encryption Encrypts the X-Ray image by using the algorithm Open PGP.
To Clinical Department Rest Client Submits the encrypted image to the Clinical Department emulayed by the route Clinical Department.

The insurance company's Clinical Department receives the encrypted X-Ray image, decrypts the data, and creates a new Authorization for the Medical Examination form in the .pdf format. Then the route generates a 275 transaction with the attached Authorization for the Medical Examination form, and stores the data in the file system for downstream delivery to the provider.

Route structure:

Route Components Description:

Component Name Component Type Description
Attachment Intake Restful Web Service Inbound Receives the encrypted X-Ray image from the company's gateway (the route Gateway).
Open PGP Encryption Decryption Decrypts the X-Ray image by using the algorithm Open PGP.
Create 275 body Mock Velocity Creates the body of the 275 transaction from the template 275.dat that is availsble in the directory ${XESProfileConfig}/templates.
Create Attachment FS Inbound Generates the form Authorization for the Medical Examination as an attachment.
Base64 Encoding Base64 Encoding Encodes the .pdf form.
Aggregation Aggregation Aggregates the 275 transaction and the encoded .pdf attachment into one XEServer multi-message exchange.
Create 275 XE Translator Creates a 275 transaction with the attached Base64-encoded .pdf form.
Storage for delivery FS Outbound Saves the 275 transaction with the attachment on the file system.
Reports FS Outbound Saves the HTML reports on the file system.