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Increased FHIR Adoption Requires a New Testing Strategy, Sponsored by Drummond Group It wasn’t long ago that Health Level 7 (HL7©) Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource (FHIR©) was seen as a neat utility for basic data sharing. A sleek new way to fetch a patient’s allergies or lab results from an EHR without wrangling complex legacy…

A Look Back at the Chicago Summer Forum and a Look Forward at Upcoming WEDI Education Nancy Spector, MSC, WEDI Senior Director, Federal Affairs It’s been a month since the WEDI Summer Forum where attendees gathered onsite in Chicago at the Loyola University campus and hundreds more joined us virtually. The buzz in the room…

Monday August 4, 2025 Welcome to Chicago, whether in person or virtually! Day 1 of WEDI’s annual Summer Forum starts tomorrow and the speakers, sponsors, and staff are still working fast and furiously to deliver the latest information to you. There has been no summer vacation for the CMS Promoting Interoperability and Prior Authorization (CMS-0057-F)…

WEDI Captures Provider and EHR Perspectives on CMS 0057-F The third session of the WEDI Spotlight Series: CMS 0057 Implementation Update discussed how health care providers and EHR vendors are implementing this complex set of new requirements. With previous sessions covering Access APIs (Payer to Payer, Provider Access & Patient Access) and Payers & Prior…

Results from WEDI’s Industry Survey on Progress made on the CMS 0057-F Final Rule Robert M. Tennant WEDI Executive Director   WEDI has taken on the task of tracking industry progress toward compliance with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Advancing Interoperability and Improving Prior Authorization Final Rule, also known as CMS-0057-F, as…

I shared with the WEDI board that I would be retiring in early 2025, after nine incredible years as President and CEO of WEDI and more than four decades in the health care industry. It is a bittersweet decision to retire from an organization that I so admire and from the industry that I’ve committed so…

As 2024 comes to a close, we’d like to share the highlights from our work in 2024 as presented at our Annual Member meeting held earlier this month. These include:  Three successful conferences (Spring, Summer and National) and each event smashed previous registration records!  Convened two Member Position Advisory (MPAs) Sessions and multiple CMS Listening Sessions. …

WEDI is pleased to announce its Board of Directors Officers for 2025. WEDI Officers for next year come from a wide range of health care organizations, including insurance companies, provider associations, industry collaboratives, and large health vendors. WEDI’s new board chair will be Merri-Lee Stine, from Aetna, a CVS Health Company. Merri-Lee will take over from Ed…