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Core Purposes
Improve the quality, affordability and availability of healthcare through effective and efficient information exchange and management.
Mission
As an initiative of WEDI, WEDI SNIP will:
- Facilitate a collaborative, industry-wide approach and readiness to health information technology (HIT), clinical initiatives, and standards including those for security, privacy, EDI transactions, code sets, and identifiers.
- Foster implementation of HIT, HIPAA, clinical initiatives, and standards in a manner that preserves the confidentiality, integrity and availability of health information, while enabling efficient business processing.
Objectives
- Provide an impartial forum for coordinating necessary dialogue among implementers of HIT, HIPAA, clinical initiatives and standards to further business process improvement.
- Establish opportunities for collaboration, compile industry input, identify barriers and success factors, and document industry "best practices" for improving business processes.
- Facilitate effective and efficient information exchange and information management.
- Support a network of regional stakeholders needed for a coordinated national implementation.
- Coordinate outreach to other related industry initiatives, identifying information gaps and identifying strategies to fill those gaps.
- Recommend an implementation approach and associated time frames for each standard based on each stakeholder group [i.e. Health Plan, Provider, Clearinghouse, Vendor, etc.] and recommend migration paths for trading partners.
- Identify implementation issues and work with appropriate stakeholders to resolve them and/or to facilitate resolution of ambiguities within standards and rules.
- Serve as a resource, in coordination with WEDI to help facilitate resolution of business issues arising from HIT, HIPAA, clinical initiatives and standards implementation.
- Coordinate recommendations, proposals and strategies in collaboration with the Policy Advisory Groups (PAGs) that are compatible with the mission and goals of the WEDI Board of Directors.
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