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.
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Resources
Perspectives on Cybersecurity in Healthcare
Knowledge Center This primer will briefly illustrate some of the challenges that healthcare organizations face in defending themselves from cyberattacks, and discuss some of the vectors in which they occur.
Read MoreVirtual Clipboard Definition and Design
Knowledge Center The purpose of this document is to support an approach for developing a pilot of a Health Benefits and Health Record Mobile Solution (or Virtual Clipboard), sponsored by The Sullivan Institute for Healthcare Innovation, and jointly supported by the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI), the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)…
Read MoreInterim 837 Changes
Knowledge Center The purpose of this issue brief is to provide information on changes made in the ASC X12N health care claim transactions between versions 5010 and 6020. These changes may indicate potential future system modifications.
Read MoreICD-10 Milestones
Knowledge Center The purpose of this document is to provide a high-level framework that organizations can use to model or track their ICD-10 compliance efforts.
Read MoreICD-10 Survey Results
Knowledge Center WEDI has been conducting ICD-10-CM/ICD-10-PCS (ICD-10) readiness surveys since 2009 to gauge the status of industry progress and has recently completed analysis of our February 2015 survey. These surveys are critical to assessing industry readiness and to identify stakeholders that may be struggling with compliance. This survey used an abridged set of questions…
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Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange Comment Letter on 2015 Edition Health IT Certification Criteria, 2015 Edition Base EHR Definition, and ONC Health IT Certification Program Modifications
Knowledge Center In its advisory role under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) periodically comments on issues related to healthcare information exchange and associated areas that it believes merit consideration by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. The WEDI Board of Directors submits…
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