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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
Virus-related EHR Outage Forces NY Hospital Back to Paper
Knowledge Center Erie County Medical Center (ECMC) and its long-term care facility at Terrace View have been battling a virus responsible for EHR outage since Sunday afternoon. “ECMC’s computer system today went down,” the hospital wrote in a public statement, “The hospital’s IT team immediately commenced a thorough assessment and analysis of the situation. Our priority is…
Read MorePolitico Morning eHealth 4/11
Knowledge Center Jim Daley, director of IT at BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina, will retire from the board of WEDI next month to coincide with his retirement from the Palmetto state’s blues plan. To read more, visit Politico.
Read MoreWEDI Announces Jim Daley Retirement from Board of Directors
Knowledge Center The industry stalwart helped to lead the organization’s efforts to promote the use of health IT in information exchange as a Board of Directors member for more than 16 years RESTON, Va. — April 10, 2017 — The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI), the nation’s leading nonprofit authority on the use of health IT to…
Read MoreWEDI elects Laurie Darst as board chair
Knowledge Center The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange named Laurie Darst chair of its board of directors. Ms. Darst is a regulatory advisor for the department of finance at Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic. Ms. Darst’s primary focus at Mayo includes HIPAA compliance for electronic transactions, regulatory administrative simplification mandates as well as trends affecting revenue cycle management.…
Read MoreWEDI Names Laurie Darst, Jay Eisenstock to Lead Board of Directors
Knowledge Center The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) announced the election of Laurie Darst as chair and Jay Eisenstock as chair-elect of the board of directors. The Reston, Va.-based organization is a national not-for-profit, multi-stakeholder organization that promotes the use of information technology to improve healthcare information exchange. WEDI’s membership includes a broad coalition…
Read MoreHealthcare Data Breach Risk Higher in Larger Facilities
Knowledge Center Having greater access to healthcare data, which is common in larger hospitals and teaching-focused facilities, can create a higher data breach risk, according to a recent study published by JAMA Internal Medicine. There is a “fundamental trade-off,” as broad health data access helps hospital quality improvement efforts, research needs, and education requirements, researchers noted. However,…
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