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
EFT Relationship to the 835
Knowledge Center The purpose of this issue brief is to respond to the challenges that came to light in the 2014 survey and to assist providers and payers with the challenges of processing the 835 payment transactions, offering clarification on how EFT payments should be issued, and describing how the corresponding 835 remittance advice should…
Read MoreFundamentals of Accountable Care Organizations
Knowledge Center This paper briefly describes the basic structure, operation and activities of ACOs, while outlining some of the key issues and questions that the Workgroup will tackle. WEDI encourages organizations to participate in an ongoing survey of ACOs to help monitor progress and evaluate common practices, challenges and opportunities. In follow-up to this brief,…
Read MoreThe Consumer-Driven Mobile-First Healthcare of Tomorrow
Knowledge Center For the past several decades, the healthcare industry in the United States has resisted the clarion call of modernization and lagged behind other industries that embraced reform. However, the healthcare industry has recently begun to galvanize around transformative paradigm shifts aimed at optimizing the transparency, value, personalization, efficiency, and integration of services. In…
Read MoreICD-10 Survey Results
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 brings to the attention of the Department of Health and Human Services issues related to Administrative Simplification and related areas that it believes merit review and consideration. WEDI has been…
Read MoreRequest for Information Regarding the Requirements for the Health Plan Identifier (HPID)
Knowledge Center In response to the Request for Information (RFI) regarding the Requirements for the Health Plan Identifier (HPID), WEDI held a Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) to provide a forum for healthcare organizations to convene and discuss in detail issues relating to regulatory provisions for the HPID. The outcome of the discussion is a set…
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Recommendations to Enhance the Transition to ICD-10
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 brings to the attention of the Department of Health and Human Services issues related to Administrative Simplification and related areas that it believes merit review and consideration. Following the recent…
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