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WEDI Newsletter | September 2018
Executive Corner | WEDI National Conference is Fast Approaching
Upcoming Webinar | Resources at Your Fingertips | Featured Video On Demand
Media Spotlight: WEDI Featured in RCM Answers | WEDI Welcomes New Members
Workgroup Roundup | Latest Member News
Dear WEDI Members,

I have said this before, but I am continually amazed at the incredible work from our Educational Committee and Board that goes into putting together our conferences. Each year, the speakers we are able to secure seems to be more impressive than the last. Thank you all for your dedication to WEDI, to the membership and to promoting and improving health IT’s impact on the American health care system. As I mentioned, I am truly excited to hear from our slate of expert speakers, including those from ONC, OCR, NCVHS, National Coalition of Healthcare, UHIN, HIMSS, AMA, CAQH CORE, among so many others.

I look to see so many of our members – and many new faces I hope to meet – in just a few short weeks! If there is anything we at WEDI can do to help make your WEDI National Conference experience better, please don’t hesitate to ask our staff. This conference is for YOU, and we hope you walk away with enlightened insights, a deep knowledge of the happenings within health care and policy outlooks, as well as a network of colleagues to which you can rely on.

See you all in D.C.!

— Charles Stellar , WEDI President & CEO
The WEDI National Conference 2018 will pack health care’s most prominent voices into an exciting three days of educational sessions and networking events. Our speakers will engage the audience on the topics that most significantly impact today’s health care environment in such arenas as value-based care, administrative simplification, patient matching, data exchange, claims attachments, prior authorization, telehealth, artificial intelligence, blockchain and more. It is an event that those interested in improving the efficiency of health IT within the industry must attend.

Monday, October 15
The first day of the event will begin at noon with WEDI Workgroup and Subworkgroup meetings; these are open to both members of the workgroups and non-members who are interested in the happenings within the focuses of our Workgroups and Subworkgroups. Following this will be the networking reception that evening.

Tuesday, October 16
Day 2 of the conference will kickoff with a Women in HIT Breakfast event, followed by the Keynote Address from Dr. Donald Rucker, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. And later in the afternoon will be an important session from Roger Severino, Director of the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) on “Surveying the Privacy Landscape – Future Considerations & Next Steps.” Additional educational sessions of the day include:

  • Value-Based Care: Its Role in the Future of Healthcare with speaker from Leavitt Partners
  • Panel: Real-World Look at Blockchain, It’s Here to Stay with panelists from ONC, Old Dominion University, Health Wizz, and UnitedHealthcare
  • Data Security Panel with panelists from WebShield and LabCorp
  • Panel: Putting Artificial Intelligence to Use in Healthcare with panelists from University of Chicago Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, Change Healthcare, and Leavitt Partners
  • Value-Based Care Panel – Panelists TBA
  • Panel: “FHIR”-side Chat: A Multi-Stakeholder Discussion on Da Vinci Project and FHIR with panelists from Da Vinci Project, Amida, and Enablecare LLC
  • Telehealth in Action with speakers from LiveHealth Online and Cleveland Clinic
  • Telehealth Panel: Treating Patients Beyond the Physician’s Office with panelists from INOVA, Foley & Lardner, and others TBA
  • Congressional Outlook on Healthcare with speaker from the House Ways & Means Subcommittee on Health
  • Deploying Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare; Leveraging Clinical EHR Data to Reshape Healthcare and the Importance on Data Interoperability, Quality and Monitoring with speakers from University of Minnesota Medical School and University of Chicago Medicine
  • And the evening will conclude with a WEDI First-Timer Happy Hour event welcoming and recognizing new WEDI members and attendees to the WEDI Conference.

Wednesday, October 17
The final day of the conference will begin with a WEDI’s Association Update and Awards Ceremony, followed by educational sessions including:

  • How Do We Turn the Corner on Value-Based Care? with speaker from the National Coalition on Healthcare
  • A Look at the NCVHS Predictability Roadmap with speaker from NCVHS
  • WEDI Workgroup Showcase – Searching for the Why? Eligibility & Benefits Inquiries, A Survey Report with speakers from the WEDI Eligibility Subworkgroup
  • WEDI Workgroup Showcase – Encounters, Definitions and Use Cases with speakers from the WEDI Claims Subworkgroup and Sharp Health
  • The Mission Continues: Regulatory & Administrative Burden Reduction with speaker from ONC
  • The Voice of the Practice Management System – EDI Implementation & Information Exchange with speakers TBA
  • Panel: Working Together to Find an Answer: A Multi-stakeholder Look at Patient Matching with panelists from UHIN, HIMSS, and the American Hospital Association (AMA)
  • Attachments Business Use Case: Stakeholder Traction with speakers from Anthem, Jopari Solutions, and HCSC
  • Understanding Provider Directories and their Challenges with speakers from the American Medical Association (AMA) and CAQH CORE
  • Provider Information SWG Update: California Data Collection Initiative with speakers from Gaine Healthcare and Availity
  • CAQH CORE Efforts to Reduce Administrative Burden in Prior Authorization with speakers from CAQH CORE

A complete conference agenda is available and updated regularly on the WEDI website . The conference is open to all interested healthcare stakeholders across provider, payer, vendor and government entities. Both WEDI members and non-members can register online for the conference with group and early registration discounts available through October 1.
The Lost Tribe of Clinical Data: A Dramatic Story Based on Real Life Events Thursday, October 11, 2018 (1:00-2:00 p.m. ET)

Join us for a FREE webinar focused on harnessing the power of clinical data in your organization.

For years, care management, quality programs, and other clinical initiatives have relied on patient information patched together from claims-based data to drive decisions, despite the shortcomings of the data. We know what has been missing: Clinical Data. But, where do you find it, how do you best consume it, and how do you build the necessary applications and skillset to combine it accurately and completely with all other data?
During this webinar from Edifecs we will answer these questions and more by covering the following:

  1. Why you need Clinical Data
  2. Pros and Cons of Storing and Reusing Clinical Data
  3. Business Owners: Who in your organization needs to be involved
  4. How to plan for a clinical data integration solution that meets your needs
WEDI prides itself on the initiatives our many workgroups are committed to improving for the industry through educational resources. WEDI Workgroups serve as the backbone to the association’s efforts to enhance the exchange of clinical and administrative healthcare information. Many of these projects undergo a long process with careful planning, research and delivery before the final work product is released. All the resources are located on the WEDI website for easy access. Here are a few of this year’s latest products:
As we prepare for WEDI National Conference 2018, let’s take a look back at last year’s conference, where we met with Robert Tennant, Director of Health Information Technology Policy for MGMA who describes how WEDI conferences provide both education and networking opportunities for healthcare’s leading stakeholders. 
Visit the new WEDI Vimeo Channel to view our entire video library!
WEDI’s Telehealth Workgroup ( @WEDIonline ) has recently issued the Telehealth Resource Guide for the healthcare industry. The document provides a convenient place to access various telehealth resources, identifies telehealth resources that are relevant, up-to-date, and represent a diversity of views on the topic and provides relevant federal and state regulations and policies.

To read the full article, visit RCM Answers .
WEDI has an incredible group of member organizations that recognize the value our organization brings to them professionally, as a company and as an industry advocate. Here is one of our newest members. Please join us in welcoming them!
All of our workgroups have special projects and activities underway, here’s just a brief highlight of a few:

  • The Payment Models Workgroup is currently developing an EDI Analysis to focus on a description of life cycle components and identifying data elements by payment model type.
  • The Telehealth Workgroup is in the midst of developing a Barriers for Adoption of Telehealth White Paper.
  • The Genomics Workgroup has a forthcoming white paper that is currently in the approval process titled “Making Precision Medicine the Standard of Care - A Roadmap for Building a Clinical Genomics Program, Part 1 - Clinical & Business Drivers” and the workgroup is working on Part 2 - Constructing the IT Infrastructure white paper.
  • The Acknowledgments Subworkgroup will be discussing their recent survey results at WEDI National Conference.
  • The Attachments Subworkgroup is awaiting NPRM Planning Webinars.
  • The Claims Subworkgroup is currently creating flow diagrams and content from Encounter Use Case.
  • The Eligibility and Benefits Subworkgroup is reviewing survey responses and will be releasing the results soon.
  • The Property and Casualty Subworkgroup is undergoing outreach to states so as to update the state regulations on the website.
  • The Provider Information Subworkgroup is developing a Provider Information Definition Issue Brief.
  • The Remittance Advice and Payment Subworkgroup is building an 835 Balancing Webinar.
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If you are a WEDI Corporate Member organization and would like to have your press releases included in a future edition of the WEDI Monthly Newsletter, please email with a link to your press release to jennifer@andersoni.com.
The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) is the leading authority on the use of health IT to improve healthcare information exchange in order to enhance the quality of care, improve efficiency and to reduce costs of the American healthcare system. Formed in 1991 by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), WEDI was named in the 1996 HIPAA legislation as an advisor to HHS and continues to fulfill that role today.
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