Posts by Samantha Holvey

Knowledge Center Testing Lessons Learned from ICD-10 April 29, 2016 The ICD-10 migration was by most accounts highly successful despite its enormity of scope and effort. Testing was an integral part of this success. Many of the lessons learned from this effort can be applied to implementation of future mandates. The information collected in this…

Knowledge Center Closing Gaps in Care through Health Data Exchange March 31, 2016 As delivery system transformation, consumerization and digitalization converge together, the healthcare industry is at the crossroads to address gaps in care as a national priority. With this in mind the Louis W. Sullivan Institute for Healthcare Innovation, in close collaboration with GE…

Knowledge Center Setting the Stage for Innovative Encounters March 15, 2016 The purpose of this issue brief is to provide a summary of the Report as it pertains to innovative encounters and set the stage for the work of the Innovative Encounters Workgroup. Setting the Stage for Innovative Encounters Back to Knowledge Center Categories Comments…

Knowledge Center Issues and Trends in Electronic Genomic Data Exchange October 4, 2015 This paper provides an overview of key issues to enable stakeholder discussion around the standards, protocols, work- flow processes and strategies that will be required to access, exchange, store and integrate genomic data, as well as the associated business, clinical, legal, technical…

Knowledge Center EFT Relationship to the 835 September 17, 2015 The purpose of this issue brief is to respond to the challenges that came to light in the 2014 survey and to assist providers and payers with the challenges of processing the 835 payment transactions, offering clarification on how EFT payments should be issued, and…

Knowledge Center Fundamentals of Accountable Care Organizations September 1, 2015 This paper briefly describes the basic structure, operation and activities of ACOs, while outlining some of the key issues and questions that the Workgroup will tackle. WEDI encourages organizations to participate in an ongoing survey of ACOs to help monitor progress and evaluate common practices,…

Knowledge Center The Consumer-Driven Mobile-First Healthcare of Tomorrow August 4, 2015 For the past several decades, the healthcare industry in the United States has resisted the clarion call of modernization and lagged behind other industries that embraced reform. However, the healthcare industry has recently begun to galvanize around transformative paradigm shifts aimed at optimizing the…