WEDI launches ICD-10 state initiative
The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) has created the WEDI ICD-10 State Collaborative Initiative aimed to bring together state collaborative organizations and their members to increase efficiencies and reduce the significant time and costs associated with ICD-10 compliance.
The goal of the new initiative is to help facilitate inter-state communication around ICD-10 implementation and to help bring stakeholders together to successfully implement ICD-10. Through this initiative, states will have an opportunity to share best practices, collaborate in end-to-end testing, and work together to reduce the risk and effort required to implement the ICD-10 standard.
A new sub-workgroup under ICD-10 will be formed on June 1, and the first ICD-10 state collaborative meeting will convene on July 22 at the WEDI ICD-10/HPID Implementation Excellence Forum. The initiative’s initial partners are California ICD-10 Collaborative, Massachusetts Health Data Consortium, Minnesota ICD-10 Collaborative, NCHICA and Wisconsin ICD-10 Collaborative.
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