The goal for workers' compensation is to seamlessly process workers' compensation information from its initial reporting source, whether that is the employer, insurance company, claimant or medical provider. Reliable data is used to identify the causes and extent of work place injuries and illness and can be used by employers to reduce the incidence and severity of industrial injury and illness. Comparable data can be used by law makers to draw comparisons across jurisdictional lines and measure the impact of legislative and regulatory reform.
Reliable data can determine and measure cost drivers in the system.
IOWA Iowa has been accepting Employers First Reports of Injury via EDI since 1996. Release 1 provides for one transmission for the Employers First Reports of Injury and one transmission for Supplemental Reports. Release 2 is an enhancement of Release 1 that expands the information that can be transmitted and combines the Employers First Reports of Injury and Supplemental Report into a single transmission. This test was completed in May of 1998. Release 2 was released for production nationwide following successful completion of the Beta in Iowa.