WEDI provides a full suite of resources designed to help organizations better understand and manage health IT. The Resources section provides access to WEDI’s various tools and library of health IT information.
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Resources
Survey: Privacy and security are barriers to Interoperability
Knowledge Center A recent survey finds that privacy and security concerns continue to hamper the increasing interoperability of healthcare systems. The research, based on a survey from the Trusted Network Accreditation Program (TNAP), found that survey respondents overwhelming indicate that improving the electronic movement of health information will improve patient care, notes Lee Barrett, CEO…
Read MoreWEDI Connection: June 2019
Knowledge Center To read the full monthly WEDI Connection Newsletter, visit the June Newsletter.
Read MoreElectronic Health Data Exchange Success Rests With Coordinator
Knowledge Center The Trump administration’s goal of setting up seamless, national electronic health-data exchange by 2022 will rest largely on which nonprofit the government chooses to oversee its development. Nonprofits face a June 20 deadline to apply for a position that gives them executive control over how health-care providers, insurers, and patients electronically share medical…
Read MoreIndustry interoperability concerns plague TEFCA draft
Knowledge Center Initial industry comments are trickling in on the government health IT arm’s proposed “on-ramp” to national connectivity, highlighting worries the initiative is biting off more than it can chew. Official comments on the second draft of the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement won’t be released until early next week. To read the…
Read MoreWEDI Offers Public Comments on Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement Draft 2
Knowledge Center WEDI supports establishing a framework for the trusted exchange of electronic health information; offers the structure for intra‐industry collaboration WASHINGTON, DC — June 19, 2019 — WEDI, the nation’s leading nonprofit authority on the use of health IT to create efficiencies in healthcare information exchange and a statutory advisor to the U.S. Department of Health…
Read MoreCMS Seeks Electronic Prior Authorization for Medicare Part D Drugs
Knowledge Center CMS recently issued a proposed rule that aims to significantly reduce provider burden by implementing electronic prior authorization for medications prescribed through Medicare Part D. Specifically, the rule would implement new prior authorization transaction standards for the Part D e-Prescribing program, which all Medicare Part D plans would have to support by January 2021. To…
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