The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) is seeking comments on its new draft Health Identification Card Implementation Guide. A draft published by the group last year garnered 100 pages of comments; as a result, the workgroup has rewritten the implementation guide to address every comment.
The intent of the guide is to enable automated and interoperable identification using standard machine-readable health identification cards. The guide standardizes present practice and hopes to bring uniformity of information, appearance, and technology to the more than 100 million cards now issued by healthcare providers, health plans, government programs, and others.
A one-day forum on the guide will be held Aug. 22, 2007, at the Hyatt Fair Lakes in Fairfax, Va. Ideas and comments can also be sent to HealthID@wedi.org. The workgroup anticipates presenting the final draft to the WEDI board of directors for approval in mid-September.
