WEDI Papers & Fact Sheets
2022 WEDI Annual Report
Knowledge Center Episode 222- Beyond the Chair: Empowering Patients and Providers Through Dental Data Sharing. Steve Roberts, Vyne January 5, 2023 WEDI was formed in 1991 by then-Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Dr. Louis Sullivan to be a national, multi-stakeholder organization to serve as a voice for the health care industry to improve…
Read MoreElectronic Payments: Guiding Principles
Knowledge Center Episode 222- Beyond the Chair: Empowering Patients and Providers Through Dental Data Sharing. Steve Roberts, Vyne December 16, 2022 The opportunities for improved efficiency and cost-savings associated with industry adoption of the Automated Clearing House (ACH) Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) transaction are well established. However, despite having a national standard and supporting operating…
Read MoreBest Practices for Health Plans that Sub-Contract Creation of the Remittance Advice
Knowledge Center Episode 222- Beyond the Chair: Empowering Patients and Providers Through Dental Data Sharing. Steve Roberts, Vyne September 29, 2022 Providers are experiencing challenges in situations where they have a relationship/contract with a specific health plan (and submit their claims to that health plan), but that health plan then sub- contracts some or all…
Read MoreIntegrating Telehealth Data from Standalone Platforms into EHRs
Knowledge Center Episode 222- Beyond the Chair: Empowering Patients and Providers Through Dental Data Sharing. Steve Roberts, Vyne September 21, 2022 As the use of telehealth services through standalone platforms becomes more prevalent, there will be an increased need to integrate health data from those platforms into patients’ electronic health records (EHR). This paper will…
Read MoreFact Sheet: Data issues in Clinical Genomics
Knowledge Center Episode 222- Beyond the Chair: Empowering Patients and Providers Through Dental Data Sharing. Steve Roberts, Vyne March 17, 2022 What can EHR systems do now to support genomics in clinical practice In general, the health care industry struggles to understand how to better incorporate genomics into patient care. Some of these challenges are…
Read More2021 WEDI Annual Report
Knowledge Center Episode 222- Beyond the Chair: Empowering Patients and Providers Through Dental Data Sharing. Steve Roberts, Vyne February 4, 2022 WEDI was formed in 1991 by then-Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Dr. Louis Sullivan to be a national, multi-stakeholder organization to serve as a voice for the health care industry to improve…
Read MoreNACHA Data Security Requirement Updates for Healthcare Entities
Knowledge Center Episode 222- Beyond the Chair: Empowering Patients and Providers Through Dental Data Sharing. Steve Roberts, Vyne November 17, 2021 This paper outlines updates made to the NACHA Operating Rules (Article 1, section 1.6 Security Requirements) regarding security requirements for account numbers used in healthcare claim payments and other electronic payments made by healthcare…
Read MoreFact Sheet: Privacy and Security in Telehealth
Knowledge Center Episode 222- Beyond the Chair: Empowering Patients and Providers Through Dental Data Sharing. Steve Roberts, Vyne November 10, 2021 The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requires covered entities (e.g., health care provider, payer, or clearinghouse) to protect PHI they maintain or transmit to other covered entities or business associates. The requirement…
Read MorePrior Authorization Workflow Barriers and Guiding Principles
Knowledge Center Episode 222- Beyond the Chair: Empowering Patients and Providers Through Dental Data Sharing. Steve Roberts, Vyne October 4, 2021 Based on its discussions, the Prior Authorization Subworkgroup developed a set of guiding principles that will support optimal industry implementation of the X12 278 transactions and help stakeholders achieve increased benefits and cost savings…
Read MoreBest Practices for Secondary EDI Claim Submissions
Knowledge Center Episode 222- Beyond the Chair: Empowering Patients and Providers Through Dental Data Sharing. Steve Roberts, Vyne September 27, 2021 Mitigation steps that providers, software vendors, clearinghouses, and health plans can take to reduce consumption of resources at all levels, eliminate questions and confusion, reduce errors, and result in faster and more accurate payments…
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