The EDI 824 acknowledgment is used as a means of communicating errors in a previous transaction. The EDI 824 report allows the trading partner who sent the original transaction to identify, correct and resubmit that transaction. In healthcare applications, the optional EDI 824 transaction meets HIPAA 5010 requirements for non-claims (EDI 276, 270 and 278) transactions. In practice, EDI 824 is used or even required as an acknowledgment to EDI 837 Claims as well. The 824 acknowledgment also is used report the success of failure of an EDI 275 attachment transaction. The 824 can embed an HL7 report on the acceptance of the HL7 or identifying specific HL7 syntax errors.