Tracking & Governance
Knowing where a transaction went, when, and what happened to it does not require keeping the transaction. Post-n-Track produces an end-to-end audit trail as a byproduct of routing, while retaining no PHI (protected health information) at rest.
Provenance Without Payload
Provenance is metadata: identifiers, timestamps, state transitions, and outcomes. None of it requires the transaction body, and all of it is produced by normal operation when the routing layer is instrumented to record it.
Provenance and payload are different things
The question "what happened to my claim" is answered by state rather than content: it was received at this time, validated with this result, routed to this payer, acknowledged at 999, accepted at 277CA (the payer's claim acknowledgment), adjudicated. None of that requires the claim body.
Conflating the two is why intermediaries argue they must retain PHI to give you visibility. They must retain metadata. The payload retention is a separate decision made for separate reasons.
The Audit Trail
Compliance as a Byproduct
An append-only record of what moved where and when is what an auditor asks for, what a trading partner attestation depends on, and what a dispute is resolved with. Generated automatically by normal operation, it costs nothing extra and cannot be reconstructed after the fact if it wasn't. Increasingly, regulation asks for exactly this. Attestation and provenance requirements mandate evidence that a well-instrumented routing layer already produces.
Visibility Without a Repository
Status, lineage, and outcome per transaction; the acknowledgment chain in full; validation results and their reasons; and a durable record of routing decisions. What is absent is the ability to re-read the claim body months later, which is a capability the submitter's own system already has, because it is the system of record.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is healthcare data lineage?
Data lineage is the ability to trace a transaction's origin, movement, transformation, and destination across its lifecycle: when a claim was received, validated, routed, acknowledged, accepted, and adjudicated. Lineage is metadata about the transaction rather than the transaction content.
Can you have full transaction visibility without storing PHI?
Yes. Visibility questions are answered by state and metadata: identifiers, timestamps, state transitions, validation results, and outcomes. None require the payload. Intermediaries that argue retention is necessary for visibility are conflating provenance with payload.
How does transaction tracking support compliance?
An append-only record of what moved where and when is the evidence an auditor requests, the basis of a trading-partner attestation, and how a dispute is resolved. It is produced automatically by normal operation, and it cannot be reconstructed later if it wasn't captured at the time.
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