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WEDI provides a full suite of resources designed to help organizations better understand and manage health IT.  The Resources section provides access to WEDI’s various tools and library of health IT information.

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Resources

Cyber Security DO’S and DON’TS for Health Care Organizations

January 17, 2025

WEDI-PS-WG-Cybersecurity-DOs-and-DONTs-finalDownload Brought to you by the WEDI Privacy & Security WG: Cybersecurity protection is for everyone!  Sometimes it’s easy to get caught up in which regulations impact what kinds or organizations… the WEDI Privacy and Security Workgroup has prepared this short reference document specifically targeted to smaller healthcare organizations.  But it can be used by all…

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WEDI Federal Update 1.13.2025

January 16, 2025

OCR Settles 8th Ransomware Investigation. The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced an $80,000 settlement with a Massachusetts company that provides electronic medical record and billing support services to HIPAA covered entities. The settlement resolves an investigation concerning a ransomware attack on the vendor’s information system.  On March 25, 2023, an unknown actor gained access to…

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WEDI Interoperability and Prior Authorization Survey

January 13, 2025

New WEDI Interoperability and Prior Authorization Survey is Now Live! WEDI is conducting a survey to determine how the health care industry is implementing the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Interoperability and Prior Authorization Final Rule. Compliance with the Final Rule is required by Jan. 1, 2026, for the prior authorization metrics reporting and Jan.1,…

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WEDI Federal Update 1.6.2025

January 10, 2025

OCR Releases New HIPAA Proposed Rule Focused on Cybersecurity. The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has released a proposed rule that seeks to improve cybersecurity and better protect the health care system from cyberattacks. The proposed rule would modify the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Security Rule to require HIPAA covered…

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EP185: From Innovation to Integration: The Past, Present, and Future of Value- Based Purchasing with Andréa Caballero from Catalyst for Payment Reform.

January 10, 2025

From a recent WEDI Virtual Spotlight, a presentation by Andrea Caballero, VP of Policy with Catalyst for Payment Reform.

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WEDI President & CEO to Retire

January 6, 2025

I shared with the WEDI board that I would be retiring in early 2025, after nine incredible years as President and CEO of WEDI and more than four decades in the health care industry. It is a bittersweet decision to retire from an organization that I so admire and from the industry that I’ve committed so…

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