Knowledge Center
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.
We strive to make the approval process of our work products as transparent as possible. White papers, issue briefs and surveys must be approved by the Peer Review Committee. Workgroup charters, new workgroups and co-chairs must be approved by the Work Group Leadership Committee. Comment letters and WEDI policies must be approved by the Policy Committee.
Resources
WEDI elects Laurie Darst as board chair
Knowledge Center The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange named Laurie Darst chair of its board of directors. Ms. Darst is a regulatory advisor for the department of finance at Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic. Ms. Darst’s primary focus at Mayo includes HIPAA compliance for electronic transactions, regulatory administrative simplification mandates as well as trends affecting revenue cycle management.…
Read MoreWEDI Names Laurie Darst, Jay Eisenstock to Lead Board of Directors
Knowledge Center The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) announced the election of Laurie Darst as chair and Jay Eisenstock as chair-elect of the board of directors. The Reston, Va.-based organization is a national not-for-profit, multi-stakeholder organization that promotes the use of information technology to improve healthcare information exchange. WEDI’s membership includes a broad coalition…
Read MoreHealthcare Data Breach Risk Higher in Larger Facilities
Knowledge Center Having greater access to healthcare data, which is common in larger hospitals and teaching-focused facilities, can create a higher data breach risk, according to a recent study published by JAMA Internal Medicine. There is a “fundamental trade-off,” as broad health data access helps hospital quality improvement efforts, research needs, and education requirements, researchers noted. However,…
Read MoreWEDI Announces Election Of New 2017-2018 Board Chair And Chair-Elect
Knowledge Center The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI), the nation’s leading nonprofit authority on the use of health IT to create efficiencies in healthcare information exchange, announced the election of Laurie Darst as Chair and Jay Eisenstock as Chair-Elect of the Board of Directors. In the role as the 2017 Chair, Darst, revenue cycle…
Read MoreWEDI Announced Election of New 2017, 2018 Board Chair and Chair Elect
Knowledge Center The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI), a nonprofit authority on the use of HIT to create efficiencies in health care information exchange (HIE), announced the election of Laurie Darst as chair and Jay Eisenstock as chair-elect of the board of directors. In the role as the 2017 chair, Darst, revenue cycle regulatory advisor with…
Read MoreWEDI names Durst, Eisenstock to lead board of directors
Knowledge Center The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange has elected Laurie Darst as its chair and Jay Eisenstock as chair-elect for its board of directors for 2017. The two will play lead roles in directing the board for WEDI, a national not-for-profit, multi-stakeholder organization that promotes the use of information technology to improve healthcare information…
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