WEDI in the News

Knowledge Center Episode 231- Best of 2025- Our Top 3 Podcast Episodes February 22, 2017 February 22, 2017 – ORLANDO – Prior authorization reform has recently been a hot topic for many healthcare industry groups and it was no different at HIMSS17. To find out more about what providers and payers plan on doing to alleviate the…

Knowledge Center Episode 231- Best of 2025- Our Top 3 Podcast Episodes February 22, 2017 ORLANDO — The healthcare industry hasn’t eliminated the hassles for providers that prior authorization often entails, but they’re getting closer, several speakers said here at Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual meeting. “Studies have shown that prior authorization is the…

Knowledge Center Episode 231- Best of 2025- Our Top 3 Podcast Episodes February 15, 2017 WEDI LIKES PRICE AS HHS SECRETARY: The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange, a health IT adviser to HHS created the last time a physician ran the department, on Tuesday praised Price’s knowledge of health IT and understanding of policy. “These skills will…

Knowledge Center Episode 231- Best of 2025- Our Top 3 Podcast Episodes February 14, 2017 Today’s Senate confirmation of Rep. Tom Price, MD (R-Ga.) to be the next Secretary of Health and Human Services is generating positive reactions from healthcare information technology groups. While Senate Democrats voted along party lines against Price’s nomination because of…

Knowledge Center Episode 231- Best of 2025- Our Top 3 Podcast Episodes January 13, 2017 Healthcare providers face many challenges in launching and sustaining a telehealth program – including finding the right CPT codes, if they exist, for reimbursement. In many cases, a telehealth or telemedicine procedure is so new, a proper definition and guidelines…

Knowledge Center Episode 231- Best of 2025- Our Top 3 Podcast Episodes January 12, 2017 WEDI publishes a brief introducing physicians to codes for telemedicine services. The challenges related to coding for telemedicine include the creation of codes for universal use that are still capable of capturing detailed telemedicine services, and a lack of consistency among payers…

Knowledge Center Episode 231- Best of 2025- Our Top 3 Podcast Episodes January 11, 2017 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. This issue brief was developed by the WEDI…

Knowledge Center Episode 231- Best of 2025- Our Top 3 Podcast Episodes January 11, 2017 WEDI, an 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. This issue brief was developed by the WEDI Innovative Encounters…

Knowledge Center Episode 231- Best of 2025- Our Top 3 Podcast Episodes January 11, 2017 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…

Knowledge Center Episode 231- Best of 2025- Our Top 3 Podcast Episodes January 10, 2017 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…