May 20-22 conference will bring health care leaders together across payers, providers, government regulators and industry vendors to discuss critical challenges facing the industry WEDI (@WEDIonline), the nation’s leading nonprofit authority on the use of health IT to create efficiencies in health care information exchange and a trusted advisor to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), announced…

October 15-18 event to convene payers, providers, government regulators and vendors for sessions focused on regulations, best practices and critical issues impacting health The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) (@WEDIonline), the nation’s leading nonprofit authority on the use of health IT to create efficiencies in healthcare information exchange and a statutory advisor to the U.S. Department of Health and…

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Accreditation program to align with 21st Century Cures Act, leverage existing frameworks and best practices while supporting blockchain, GDPR, cloud, and other underlying enabling technologies The Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC) (@EHNAC), a non-profit standards development organization and accrediting body for organizations that electronically exchange healthcare data, announced a collaboration with WEDI, SAFE-BioPharma Association, LLC, eHI, and eP3 Foundation…

InterviewsNOW on HealthcareNOW Radio, weekdays at 1:30pm ET. Guest: Charles Stellar,  President and CEO, WEDI Twitter: @WEDIonline In this special episode, I caught up with Charles at HIMSS18 in Las Vegas to talk about what is happening with the organization. Hear about the history of WEDI, the current initiatives, and their upcoming spring conference in May. About WEDI The Workgroup…

May 21-23 conference will bring healthcare leaders together across payers, providers, government regulators and industry vendors to discuss key issues impacting the healthcare landscape The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) (@WEDIonline), the nation's leading nonprofit authority on the use of health IT to create efficiencies in healthcare information exchange and a trusted advisor to the U.S. Department of Health…

The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (@WEDIonline), a nonprofit organization focused on the use of health IT to improve healthcare information exchange, enhance quality of care, improve efficiency and reducing costs, held its annual conference, WEDI-Con 2017, last week December 4-6 at the Hyatt Regency Reston in Reston, Va. During the three-day event, payers, providers, government regulators and vendors networked…

By Charles Stellar, President and CEO, Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) Twitter: @WEDIonline Every healthcare encounter is a collaboration: between patient and provider, physician and lab tech, patient and support staff. Each participant in the healthcare spectrum plays a vital role that supports quality outcomes. The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) has been facilitating the needs of the health…

August 1-2 event will bring healthcare leaders together to address prior authorization and other administrative inefficiencies The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) (@WEDIonline), the nation’s leading nonprofit authority on the use of health IT to create efficiencies in healthcare information exchange and a statutory advisor to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), announced Donald W. Rucker,…