WEDI Papers & Fact Sheets
Maximizing the Potential of Genomic Information to Improve Care Coordination and Health Outcomes
Knowledge Center Episode 222- Beyond the Chair: Empowering Patients and Providers Through Dental Data Sharing. Steve Roberts, Vyne August 23, 2016 Genomic medicine offers the potential to greatly improve medical practice by tailoring the preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic care available to each patient. However, this potential depends on high-quality data that can be readily accessed…
Read MoreInnovative Encounters: A Primer
Knowledge Center Episode 222- Beyond the Chair: Empowering Patients and Providers Through Dental Data Sharing. Steve Roberts, Vyne July 19, 2016 The purpose of this issue brief is to provide a baseline understanding of innovative encounters and telehealth in today’s health care system. A WEDI definition of telehealth will be established. An overview will be…
Read MoreTesting Lessons Learned from ICD-10
Knowledge Center Episode 222- Beyond the Chair: Empowering Patients and Providers Through Dental Data Sharing. Steve Roberts, Vyne 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…
Read MoreClosing Gaps in Care through Health Data Exchange
Knowledge Center Episode 222- Beyond the Chair: Empowering Patients and Providers Through Dental Data Sharing. Steve Roberts, Vyne 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…
Read MoreSetting the Stage for Innovative Encounters
Knowledge Center Episode 222- Beyond the Chair: Empowering Patients and Providers Through Dental Data Sharing. Steve Roberts, Vyne 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…
Read MoreIssues and Trends in Electronic Genomic Data Exchange
Knowledge Center Episode 222- Beyond the Chair: Empowering Patients and Providers Through Dental Data Sharing. Steve Roberts, Vyne 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…
Read MoreEFT Relationship to the 835
Knowledge Center Episode 222- Beyond the Chair: Empowering Patients and Providers Through Dental Data Sharing. Steve Roberts, Vyne 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…
Read MoreFundamentals of Accountable Care Organizations
Knowledge Center Episode 222- Beyond the Chair: Empowering Patients and Providers Through Dental Data Sharing. Steve Roberts, Vyne 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…
Read MoreThe Consumer-Driven Mobile-First Healthcare of Tomorrow
Knowledge Center Episode 222- Beyond the Chair: Empowering Patients and Providers Through Dental Data Sharing. Steve Roberts, Vyne 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…
Read MoreICD-10 Vendor Readiness
Knowledge Center Episode 222- Beyond the Chair: Empowering Patients and Providers Through Dental Data Sharing. Steve Roberts, Vyne July 16, 2015 This WEDI issue brief provides a list of items that System Vendors should address regarding the ICD-10 remediation, testing, and implementation of their products. Communicating the items identified in this issue brief will help…
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