Posts by Dave Anderson

Knowledge Center WEDI Connection: July 2019 July 25, 2019 To read the full monthly WEDI Connection Newsletter, visit the July Newsletter. Back to Knowledge Center Categories Comments & Letters Podcasts Press Releases Regulatory Updates SDOs & Operating Rules Updates Videos WEDI Blog WEDI in the News WEDI Newsletters WEDI Papers & Fact Sheets Recent Posts…

Knowledge Center Survey: Privacy and security are barriers to Interoperability June 27, 2019 A recent survey finds that privacy and security concerns continue to hamper the increasing interoperability of healthcare systems. The research, based on a survey from the Trusted Network Accreditation Program (TNAP), found that survey respondents overwhelming indicate that improving the electronic movement…

Knowledge Center WEDI Connection: June 2019 June 27, 2019 To read the full monthly WEDI Connection Newsletter, visit the June Newsletter. Back to Knowledge Center Categories Comments & Letters Podcasts Press Releases Regulatory Updates SDOs & Operating Rules Updates Videos WEDI Blog WEDI in the News WEDI Newsletters WEDI Papers & Fact Sheets Recent Posts WEDI…

Knowledge Center Electronic Health Data Exchange Success Rests With Coordinator June 26, 2019 The Trump administration’s goal of setting up seamless, national electronic health-data exchange by 2022 will rest largely on which nonprofit the government chooses to oversee its development. Nonprofits face a June 20 deadline to apply for a position that gives them executive…

Knowledge Center Industry interoperability concerns plague TEFCA draft June 20, 2019 Initial industry comments are trickling in on the government health IT arm’s proposed “on-ramp” to national connectivity, highlighting worries the initiative is biting off more than it can chew. Official comments on the second draft of the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement won’t…

Knowledge Center CMS Seeks Electronic Prior Authorization for Medicare Part D Drugs June 18, 2019 CMS recently issued a proposed rule that aims to significantly reduce provider burden by implementing electronic prior authorization for medications prescribed through Medicare Part D. Specifically, the rule would implement new prior authorization transaction standards for the Part D e-Prescribing program, which…

Knowledge Center WEDI Announces 2019 Summer Forum titled Bridging EDI to API Working for Today, Preparing for Tomorrow June 13, 2019 WEDI, the nation’s leading nonprofit authority on the use of health IT to create efficiencies in healthcare information exchange and a trusted advisor to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), today announced its 2019 Summer…

Knowledge Center WEDI is offering the comments on their CMS as well as ONC rules that are proposed executing the Cures Act of 21st Century June 11, 2019 WEDI, the country’s driving not-for-profit expert on the utilization of wellbeing IT to make efficiencies in social insurance data trade and a statutory guide to the U.S.…