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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
Charles Stellar Named a Top 50 Health IT expert for 2017
Knowledge Center Healthcare IT is fortunate to have many knowledgeable experts willing to share what they know with others. Following up on last year’s popular look at 50 of the leading HIT experts in the field, Health Data Management offered this compilation of some of the guiding lights of the industry, many of which are new to…
Read MoreWEDI Releases Issue Brief On Intro To Telehealth Codes
Knowledge Center Educational resource provides introductory information on codes for telehealth services, development of codes for telehealth services, and challenges with telehealth coding WEDI, the nation’s leading authority on the use of health IT to create efficiencies in healthcare information exchange, announced the release of an educational issue brief on an Introduction to Telehealth Codes.…
Read MoreWEDI Releases Educational Issue Brief on Introduction to Telehealth Codes
Knowledge Center Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI), the nation’s leading authority on the use of HIT to create efficiencies in health care information exchange, announced the release of an educational issue brief on an Introduction to Telehealth Codes. This issue brief was developed by the WEDI Innovative Encounters Workgroup with the intention to provide…
Read MoreIntroduction to Telehealth Codes
Knowledge Center The purpose of this issue brief is to provide introductory information on codes for telehealth services, development of codes for telehealth services, and challenges with telehealth coding.
Read MoreICD-10-CM Clinical Indicators
Knowledge Center Section I (Conventions) of the 2017 ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting includes a new guideline number 19 titled “Code assignment and Clinical Criteria”. This guideline states “The assignment of a diagnosis code is based on the provider’s diagnostic statement that the condition exists. The provider’s statement that the patient has a…
Read MoreElectronic Payments: Guiding Principles
Knowledge Center The opportunities for improved efficiency and cost-savings associated with industry adoption of the Automated Clearing House (ACH) Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) transaction are well established. However, despite having a national standard and supporting operating rules, ACH EFT is significantly underutilized by the industry, with the most recent CAQH Index® reporting that only 61.4%…
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