News & Updates July 16, 2021

Events July 20th: How to Build Better Processes with Electronic Transactions  Knowledge Center Podcast Episode 44: The Evolution of Ransomware with Google Cloud’s Director of Security and Compliance Jeanette Manfra In the News The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced this week that Dr. Meena Seshamani will serve as Deputy Administrator and Director of the Center for Medicare. Read the WEDI welcome letter WEDI Summer Forum July 27-29: Fixing the Health Care Knowledge Supply Chain Key Speakers Include: Steve Posnack, Health Information Technology Alexandra Mugge, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Kristen Valdes, b.well Timothy Kaja, Optum Jon Zimmerman, Holon Solutions Jerrod Ullah, HealthTalk.ai Jaffer Traish, Aunt Bertha And more! Register Today!

WEDI Letter to The Honorable Meena Seshamani, MD, Ph.D.

TEFCA Will be Live in 2022 The timeline has been released for the completion of the Trusted Exchange Framework, the Common Agreement Version 1 and the Qualified Health Information Network (QHIN) Technical Framework (QTF) Version 1. This timeline establishes the goal to have this new network open for participation in the first quarter (Q1) of calendar year 2022. Learn More

Resources for You Fact Sheet: Privacy and Security in Telehealth, Security Risk Assessments Fact Sheet: Privacy & Security in Telehealth, Business Associates Agreements Provider Adjustments (PLB) in the Electronic Remittance Advice (835) Podcast Episode 43: Health Disparities in Oncology and Beyond with Dr. Tiffany Avery, Chief Medical Officer, NantHealth

NEW OMH Funding Opportunities: Framework to Address Health Disparities through Collaborative Policy Efforts The Office of Minority Health (OMH) Framework to Address Health Disparities through Collaborative Policy Efforts Initiative will demonstrate the effectiveness of a methodological framework, structured processes, and tools to assess and identify policies that may create or perpetuate health disparities. The initiative will also support the modification, development, and implementation of policies to improve health outcomes. The initiative seeks applications for two separate notices of funding opportunity (NOFO): Demonstration Projects and a Coordinating Center. The Coordinating Center will provide technical assistance to the recipients of Demonstration Projects funding.

National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month is observed each July to bring awareness to the unique struggles that racial and ethnic minority communities face regarding mental illness in the United States.

HHS Releases Project US@ Draft Technical Specification Version 1.0 for Comment Project US@ was created to develop a unified, cross-standards, healthcare industry-wide specification for representing patient addresses to improve patient matching.The comment period for the draft specification will be open from July 1 through July 31, 2021, and will be released by NCPDP, X12, and HL7. The final version 1.0 of the Project US@ Technical Specification is expected to be released later in 2021. Learn More

Compliance Review Program Findings The CMS National Standards Group, on behalf of HHS, administers the Compliance Review Program. The program aims to promote compliance with HIPAA Administrative Simplification rules for electronic health care transactions. Since the program launched in April 2019, NSG has conducted 20 compliance reviews with a mix of clearinghouses and health plans. To help covered entities prepare for compliance reviews, CMS has created a report with the most common violations of standards and operating rules from the reviews. Find out more about the Compliance Review Program on the Administrative Simplification website.

ONC Releases USCDI v2, and it has new data classes and elements that will support the sharing of gender identity, sexual orientation, social determinants of health, and other data in health IT. The USCDI helps to standardize data elements, providing a roadmap for health IT developers to build products and solutions that can help improve health outcomes at both the individual and population level.

Clinical Decision Support (CDS)  for Advancing Person-Centered Care and Health Equity Join ONC on July 27 for a clinical decision support (CDS) workshop. 10:00 am-1:15 pm ET Register Here

Hot Headlines: Should we trust big tech with our health data? Seattle health-data startup Truveta raises $95M Moving Beyond EHRs: What Lies Ahead for Healthcare Digitization? AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon HealthLake Communications tech securely links all staff in new ways at Asante health system

Telehealth Workgroup The next Telehealth Workgroup meeting will be July 21st from 4-5ET. Contact sholvey@wedi.org to get involved

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