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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
Facing heavy pressure from industry, HHS rescinds health plan identifier
Knowledge Center The Department of Health and Human Services has eliminated the need for health plans to use a standard unique health plan identifier, effective December 27. The use of the health plan identifier (HPID) was required in an HHS final rule in 2012 but has never been enforced. Instead, health plans have voluntarily adopted…
Read MoreWEDI Applauds Rescinding of Health Plan Identifier (HPID) by CMS
Knowledge Center WASHINGTON, D.C. — Nov. 6, 2019 — WEDI, the nation’s leading nonprofit authority on the use of health IT to create efficiencies in health care information exchange, today applauded the rescinding by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) of the Unique Health Plan Identifier (HPID) under the Administrative Simplification provisions of…
Read MoreWEDI Supports Key JAMA Findings on Waste in US Health Care System
Knowledge Center Advisor to HHS calls for continued push for efficient and effective sharing of billing and clinical data in order to achieve administrative simplification Earlier this month, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) (@JAMA_current) published an article on Waste in the US Health Care System: Estimated Costs and Potential for Savings. In response…
Read MoreWEDI Connection: October 2019
Knowledge Center To read the full monthly WEDI Connection Newsletter, visit the October Newsletter.
Read MoreWEDI Supports Key JAMA Findings on Waste in US Health Care System
Knowledge Center Earlier this month, the Journal of the American Medical Association published an article on Waste in the US Health Care System: Estimated Costs and Potential for Savings. In response to the article’s findings, Jay Eisenstock, Chair, WEDI Board of Directors, issued the following statement. To read the full article, visit Health IT Answers.
Read MoreWEDI Supports Key JAMA Findings on Waste in US Health Care System
Knowledge Center Advisor to HHS calls for continued push for efficient and effective sharing of billing and clinical data in order to achieve administrative simplification WASHINGTON, D.C. — Oct. 29, 2019 — Earlier this month, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published an article on Waste in the US Health Care System: Estimated…
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