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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.

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

A Report on the WEDI and CMS Conferences: Two Events, Overlapping Themes

March 3, 2026

A Report on the WEDI and CMS Conferences: Two Events, Overlapping Themes 3/4/2026   I attended two conferences with similar themes: burden reduction and empowering patients through improved data exchange. The first was the WEDI Winter Forum: The Promise and Reality of Health IT in Improving the Patient Journey and the second was the Centers…

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WEDI Responds to the ASTP/ONC HTI-5 Proposed Rule and AI RFI

February 27, 2026

WEDI Responds to the ASTP/ONC HTI-5 Proposed Rule and AI RFI 3/2/26 As an advisor to the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, WEDI provides comments and recommendations to the Department and relevant agencies on a regular basis when opportunities are presented. Two recent actions by the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy…

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Episode 237, Turning the Numbers Into Action: Insights from the 2025 CAQH Index

February 27, 2026

Knowledge Center Episode 237, Turning the Numbers Into Action: Insights from the 2025 CAQH Index Michael is joined by Erin Richter Weber (Chief Policy & Research Officer) and Kristine Burnaska, PhD (Sr. Director, Insights Research and Measurement) from CAQH to unpack the 2025 CAQH Index Report, exploring where administrative simplification is delivering real results, where…

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WEDI Letter to ASTP 2/26/26

February 26, 2026

February 27, 2026 Thomas Keane, MD, MBA Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy National Coordinator for Health Information Technology U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 330 C Street, SW, 7th Floor Washington, DC 20024 Re: RIN 0955-AA09 Submitted electronically via http://www.regulations.gov Dear Assistant Secretary Keane: The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) writes today in…

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WEDI Federal Update 2.23.26

February 24, 2026

OCR Announces Civil Enforcement Program for Confidentiality of SUD Records. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced a new program to implement and enforce statutory and regulatory requirements that protect the confidentiality of substance use disorder (SUD) patient records beginning February 16, 2026. The program puts in…

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WEDI Letter to ASTP 2.23.26

February 23, 2026

Download the Letter February 23, 2026 Thomas Keane, MD, MBA Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy National Coordinator for Health Information Technology U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 330 C Street, SW, 7th Floor Washington, DC 20024 Re: RIN 0955-AA13 Submitted electronically via http://www.regulations.gov   Dear Assistant Secretary Keane: The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange…

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