Payformance Health Hires Healthcare Industry Leader Lisa Miller.JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Payformance Health, the nation's leading provider of EFT and ERA solutions, has hired Lisa Miller as the Senior Vice President and Chief Technical Officer of HealthCare Professional Services, the company announced today. An internationally renowned expert in technological advancement within the healthcare industry, Miller will oversee the product evolution of the company's flagship electronic funds transfer See EFT. (application, communications) electronic funds transfer - (EFT, EFTS, - system) Transfer of money initiated through electronic terminal, automated teller machine, computer, telephone, or magnetic tape. and electronic claims remittance solution, PaySpan Health. She also will be responsible for the direction and strategic planning of the Subject Matter Expert Service activities of the company. "Lisa Miller brings a wealth of expertise to Payformance," said Payformance President and Chief Executive Officer Dwayne L. McAfee. "We are proud to welcome a leader in the field whose knowledge, innovative thinking and understanding of the complexity of technology advancements has helped save millions of dollars for the healthcare industry." Miller currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange WEDI, pronounced "wee dee" is a not-for-profit user group in the United States for users of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) in public and private healthcare. The organization is sometimes referred to by other names that include some or all of the words: (WEDI) representing X12, which focuses on improving the quality of healthcare through effective and efficient information exchange and management. She also is a member of the Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP) was created in 2005 as part of efforts by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC, part of the US Department of Health and Human Services) to (HITSP) Work Groups, where she participates in emerging national healthcare initiatives. She is the Chair of the WEDI ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). task group and the co-chair of the WEDI acknowledgements task group. Miller has also works closely with X12, which develops uniform standards for inter-industry electronic exchange of business transactions-electronic data interchange (EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) The electronic communication of business transactions, such as orders, confirmations and invoices, between organizations. Third parties provide EDI services that enable organizations with different equipment to connect. ). She serves as the chair of the X12-C Communications and Controls Committee Task Group 4, Control Transactions. She also served as Chair of the Convergence and Outreach Task Group for X12, while serving on the X12 Steering committee. Miller also co-authored HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996, Public Law 104-191) Also known as the "Kennedy-Kassebaum Act," this U.S. law protects employees' health insurance coverage when they change or lose their jobs (Title I) and provides standards for patient health, Compliance Solutions - Comprehensive Strategies from Microsoft and the Washington Publishing Company, which helps implement a BizTalk Server infrastructure customized to support the requirements of HIPAA. Miller was an instrumental member of the Microsoft BizTalk Accelerator for HIPAA development team. Payformance Health is the industry's most innovative provider of Electronic Funds Transmission and Electronic Remittance Advice An Electronic Remittance Advice is an electronic version of a payment explanation which provides details about providers' claims payment, and if the claims are denied, it would then contain the required explanations. ERA are provided by plans to Providers. solutions. Its flagship product, PaySpan Health, builds on the company's more than 20 years of experience in developing payment solutions to meet the needs of healthcare payers and providers. By automating the last phase of the healthcare claims process - payment and remittance - PaySpan Health optimizes funds transfer and remittance delivery and brings the promise of HIPAA administrative simplification to reality. Payformance Health is proud to be the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association
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