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
Industry 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…
Read MoreWEDI Announces 2019 Summer Forum titled Bridging EDI to API Working for Today, Preparing for Tomorrow
Knowledge Center 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 of Health and Human Services (HHS), today announced its 2019 Summer Forum “Bridging EDI to API: Working for Today, Preparing for Tomorrow.” The two-day summit will take place July 30-31…
Read MoreWEDI is offering the comments on their CMS as well as ONC rules that are proposed executing the Cures Act of 21st Century
Knowledge Center WEDI, the country’s driving not-for-profit expert on the utilization of wellbeing IT to make efficiencies in social insurance data trade and a statutory guide to the U.S. Branch of Health and Human Services (HHS), reported the accommodation of suggestions to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) and the Office of the…
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Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement
Knowledge Center As ONC further develops their approach to advancing interoperability, we encourage the collaboration with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), as well as industry stakeholders such as WEDI. As an advisor to the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and a multi-stakeholder organization comprised of health plans,…
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