The Chiapas Project

Chiapas is a data translation package using the Microsoft 2.0 .NET framework with a focus on providing an easy-to-implement framework for converting various data sources to and from valid ANSI X12 HIPAA files.

Chiapas consists of the core library DLL, the Chiapas Studio GUI interface for developing mappings, documentation and a number of example files and scripts.  It also ships with a SQLite database and a copy of the awk text processor to put a number of open-source tools in one distribution.

Chiapas ships with a basic scripting language oriented towards flow control, logging and error control.  It also ships with a representation of the X12 Heirarchy Tree that include all 4010 A1 specifications (excepting 837 Dental).

Chiapas connects to a variety of data sources, including CSV and flat text files as well as a variety of databases.  As the X12 implementation within Chiapas contains embedded parsing hints and abstracts the code qualifier / code value pairs, no additional programming is needed for the actual transformation of healthcare information to and from HIPAA syntax.  Additionally, Chiapas is capable of HIPAA syntax checking Levels 1 and 2.

Here are a few screenshots of the Chiapas Studio interface:

Chiapas supports a simple, read-only UB92 file format in addition to flat files and SQL Databases.