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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.
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
Best Practices for Reducing Unnecessary Duplicate Claim Submissions
Knowledge Center The industry suffers from a high rate of rejections and/or denials caused by duplicate claim submissions to the payer. Handling duplicate claims consumes valuable staff time and incurs cost and burden to those stakeholders impacted: providers, software vendors, payers, and clearinghouses. Therefore, it is in the best interest of the industry to identify…
Read MoreWEDI Releases Two Key Industry White Papers
Knowledge Center Advisor to HHS releases latest industry resources that offer health systems guidance on navigating incorrectly routed payments; value-based payment models WASHINGTON, DC — September 9, 2020 — WEDI, the nation’s leading nonprofit authority on the use of health IT to create efficiencies in health care information exchange and a statutory advisor to the…
Read MoreWEDI Applauds CMS
Knowledge Center WEDI applauds CMS’ proposal to improve remote access to healthcare through the 2021 Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule (PFS) that seeks to make some of the emergency expansion of telehealth services permanent. WEDI urges the industry to submit comments on the proposed rule by October 5, 2020 to assist CMS in creating appropriate…
Read MorePayment Models Workgroup — Did You Know?
Knowledge Center This issue brief is the first in an ongoing series of briefs intended to provide education and clarification related to payment models and related technologies, terminology and trends.
Read MorePodcast Episode 4- Treading Lightly Through the Brave New World of Consumer Data Access with CHIME’s Mari Savickis
Knowledge Center Matthew chats with longtime friend and healthcare veteran Mari Savickis (@Mari_Savickis on Twitter), Vice President of Public Policy with CHIME, the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives. Is privacy dead? With the new regulations granting consumers more power and access to their data, have the privacy lines been blurred? What must the US…
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Patient Identity & Matching comment letter to ONC
Knowledge Center WEDI’s comment letter to Dr. Rucker, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, HHS regarding the technical and operational methods to improve patient identity and matching. Our comments based, on membership input, are provided to ONC as they develop their report to Congress on this important issue.
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