The Health Industry Business Communications Council® (HIBCC®) is an industry-sponsored and supported nonprofit organization. As an ANSI-accredited organization, our primary function is to facilitate electronic communications by developing appropriate standards for information exchange among all health care trading partners.

Our broad mission has consistently expanded to meet industry requirements and has involved HIBCC in a number of critical areas, including electronic data interchange message formats, bar code labeling data standards, universal numbering systems, and the provision of databases which assure common identifiers.

Our current major activities have emerged as a result of this broadening focus:

• Standardized manufacturer, customer, and product identification codes, including the Labeler Identification Code (LIC), Health Industry Number (HIN®), and Universal Product Number (UPN®) and the Health Industry Bar Code (HIBC) Standards

• Computerized EDI protocols in ASC X12 approved message formats

• Participation in national and international organizations working to further enhance electronic communications standards.

Perhaps most important, HIBCC plays a major advocacy and educational role in the health care industry and serves as the forum through which consensus can be reached as it electronically transforms itself for twenty-first century commerce.

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