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

Their 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.

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