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Robert Tennant, MA

Vice President, Federal Affairs
WEDI


Robert Tennant, MA, is VP, Federal Affairs for the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI), the leading authority on the use of HIT to improve infor-mation exchange. Named in HIPAA as an HHS Advisor, WEDI provides multi-stakeholder leadership and guidance to the nation’s health care system on how to use and leverage technology. Mr. Tennant focuses on federal legislative and regulatory HIT issues including, administrative simplification, HIPAA Transac-tions, Code Sets, Privacy and Security, interoperability issues, and other HIT topics. Mr. Tennant co-chairs the National HIPAA Summit and serves on the United Healthcare Administrative Simplification Workgroup, and CAQH CORE. Previously he served on the executive committee of the WEDI Board of Directors and co-chaired its Strategic National Implementation Process, Virtual Clipboard, and ePayments initiatives. In addition, Mr. Tennant was a member of the EHNAC Board, the CMS DRLS workgroup, the NUCC, the Physicians EHR Coalition, and other industry initiatives.

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