Knowledge Center
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.
We strive to make the approval process of our work products as transparent as possible. White papers, issue briefs and surveys must be approved by the Peer Review Committee. Workgroup charters, new workgroups and co-chairs must be approved by the Work Group Leadership Committee. Comment letters and WEDI policies must be approved by the Policy Committee.
Resources
WEDI Issues White Paper Addressing Barriers Impacting Industry Adoption of ERA and EFT Transactions
Knowledge Center Document offers guidance on reducing or eliminating challenges and increasing adoption of HIPAA approved electronic transactions RESTON, Va. — September 19, 2017 — The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI), the nation’s leading nonprofit authority on the use of health IT to create efficiencies in healthcare information exchange and a trusted advisor to the U.S. Department…
Read More17% of Practices Pay Fees for Electronic Healthcare Payments
Knowledge Center Approximately 17 percent of physician practices are forced to pay a fee for receiving electronic healthcare payments from their payers, with fees ranging between 2 and 5 percent of the total reimbursement, a recent MGMA poll of over 900 medical practice executives showed. Out of the practice executives who reported a fee, about 60 percent…
Read MoreBarriers to Adoption of the ERA and EFT Transactions
Knowledge Center The purpose of this paper is to identify barriers to implementation of the HIPAA standard Health Care Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) and Remittance Advice (ASC X12N Health Care Claim Payment/Advice (835) and the NACHA Corporate Credit or Debit Entry Plus Addenda (CCD+)) to provide details of the reason behind these barriers, and to…
Read MoreWEDI Connection: August 2017
Knowledge Center To read the full monthly WEDI Connection Newsletter, visit August 2017 Newsletter.
Read MoreThe Time Is Ripe for Prior Authorization Reform
Knowledge Center The following feature article appeared as the lead story in the August issue of Population Health News: Ask any physician about the biggest time waster in their practice, and they likely would say prior authorization (PA). Three-quarters of 1,000 practicing physicians surveyed by the American Medical Association (AMA) late last year said the prior…
Read MoreONC Head Dr. Donald Rucker Addresses Interoperability and Burden of Usability During WEDI Summer Forum Keynote
Knowledge Center Additional keynote featured Madhu Annadata of CMS on the agency’s growing relationships and communications efforts with the industry’s major players RESTON, Va. — August 23, 2017 — Earlier this month, the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI), the nation’s leading nonprofit authority on the use of health IT to create efficiencies in healthcare information exchange and…
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