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.
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Resources
Podcast Episode 108: Advancing Health Equity Through Alternative Payment Models. HCPLAN HEAT Co-Chairs
Knowledge Center From WEDI’s 2023 Spring Conference! The Health Care Payment and Learning and Action Network (HCPLAN) established the Health Equity Advisory Team (HEAT) to help identify and prioritize opportunities to advance health equity through alternative payment models (APMs). HEAT’s goal is person-centered and focuses on leveraging APMs to help make needed care more accessible,…
Read MoreEmerging Tech Meeting on ChatGPT
Knowledge Center Zachary Lipton, a well-noted Carnegie Mellon (CMU) Assistant Professor of Machine Learning Director of the Approximately Correct Machine Intelligence (ACMI) lab, shared his experiences in delivering machine learning applications for patients and providers with and without ChatGPT. With his experiences delivering practical successful machine learning solutions combined with his CMU focus/research, Zack brings…
Read MorePodcast Episode 107: Amplifying the Patient Voice! Jonathan Burow, Independent Health
Knowledge Center From WEDI’s 2023 Spring Conference, Michael and WEDI Board Chair, Ed Hafner chat with Jonathan Burow, VP Customer Experience and Digital Transformation with Independent Health. Jonathan discusses best practices for measuring customer satisfaction across product lines and engagement channels including call, chat, website and app.
Read MorePodcast Episode 106: The Need to Incorporate Intersectionality and SDOH with Gregg Church, President, 4medica
Knowledge Center The concept of intersectionality describes the ways in which systems of inequality based on gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, class and other forms of discrimination “intersect” to create unique dynamics and effects. Regarding health care, collecting data on intersectional social factors like race, ethnicity, gender identity, and sexual orientation can…
Read MoreReporting Tiered Benefits
Knowledge Center Tiered benefits can have different meanings or be defined differently by payers and providers. They may interpret the data they exchange differently, as well as how that information could be applied when delivering patient care. Both traditional and more complex benefit plan designs have been introduced into the health care landscape, creating the…
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