Get Involved
We offer a full range of topics and types of sessions to maximize benefit for our member organizations and their staff. Sessions fall under three :• Ala carte networking and knowledge sharing sessions
• Role or topic specific working sessions
• Deliverable oriented collaboratives focused on real outcomes
Interoperability in Action
Member organizations have leveraged IL RUG collaboration to:
• Improve long term lab mapping strategies
• Standardize advanced care planning workflows
• Optimize external data consumption without rework
regulatory Readiness
Shared assessments and policy discussions have helped members prepare for:
• 42 CFR Part 2 changes
• CMS interoperability requirements
• Privacy and proxy governance updates
Epic Engagement
IL RUG sessions provide a coordinated channel for:
• Identifying system gaps
• Sharing regional experiences
• Influencing future Epic development
Deliverable Oriented: These groups are formed with a goal of developing regional recommended standards and workflows. It is highly encouraged that all organizations consider participation and adoption.
Optimization Oriented: These groups are focused on improving existing workflows. Most recommendations will improve internal consumption of data, although some may also improve data exchange
Network and Info Sharing: These groups are focused on sharing information about specific topics, modules, workflows or functionality. It is not anticipated that regional deliverables will be an outcome of any session
In person Events: Some are niche and some are extensive, but these events pull members together to network and share best practices.
Member Sessions
WIEUG / IL-RUG: Death Data Exchange Focus Team
Tuesday, July 28, 2026 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
The main objective of this session is to get status / implementation updates from all participating organizations on their mortality workquueue status and certificate of death smart form implementation. Secondarily, we will discuss ways we can measure impact that these implementations have had on death data exchange.
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WIEUG / IL-RUG: IEX / HT Imaging Focus Team
Tuesday, July 28, 2026 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
The main objective of this session is to continue conversations about the "top issues" related to mapping that could be resolved through RUG involvement (for example - specific results that come in from trading partners that have "funky LOINC codes / items that make it hard to map or reconcile).
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**DATE / TIME MOVE** WIEUG / IL-RUG: Unverified Patients Development Feedback Series
Thursday, July 30, 2026 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Here's what this group will be exploring and discussing:
- Current workflows and challenges
- Epic development
- Front end / creation of unverified patients optimization
• Call centers
• Non???in???person interactions
- Back end / clean-up of unverified patients optimization
• A specific deletion reason for unverified patients
o Additional hard stops, like:
Patient still unverified
No completed visits
No upcoming visits
No recent MyChart activity
o A batch deletion job, specifically for unverified patients
Can mark for deletion
Can fully delete
Can stage deletion over time (review ??? delete)
• Batch deletion is only planned for unverified patients, not fully established patients
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WIEUG / IL-RUG: SER / Provider Directory Optimization
Thursday, July 30, 2026 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM
Who wants to know more about the Epic One Directory? We sure do! Join this session to hear all that Epic can share about how the One Epic Directory will change the way that we manage provider directories. What will it make more efficient? What will Epic organizations have to do to jump on board? Is it required? How will it impact interop-related issue management between organizations? Will it really be all that we think it will be? Idk, but I’ll be there to listed in and find out!
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August 2026
WIEUG / IL-RUG: Keeping up with Interop Regs
Tuesday, August 4, 2026 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
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WIEUG: WIC Collaboration
Tuesday, August 4, 2026 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
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WIEUG: WIR Immunization Registry Collaboration
Wednesday, August 5, 2026 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
The agenda for this collaboration is created through partnership of the attendees, Epic and the WI WIR DHS.
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WIEUG / IL-RUG: VA Collaboration
Wednesday, August 5, 2026 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
Let’s hear from Epic all about how we can support our veterans through the application of APIs. This is something that we can use the power of our RUGs to make a REAL DIFFERENCE in the lives of our veterans and their families and I can’t wait to have traction on how we can embrace current and future functionality to support this effort.
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WIEUG / IL-RUG: Advance Care Planning Focus Team
Thursday, August 6, 2026 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
The main objective of this session is to define recommendations and best practices associated with the proposed ACP exchange workflow.
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WIEUG / IL-RUG: SDOH / Improving Patient Outcomes Focus Series
Thursday, August 6, 2026 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Join this program to do good! I mean it. This program is all about identifying at risk patient populations using SDOH assessments and identifying programs already live that could be expanded / rinse and repeated to improve care delivery and patient outcomes. How will we get there? We will discuss functionality and build opportunities and I am confident that as a collaborative team we can better understand how SDOH plays a role in addressing care coordination inadequacy and we can brainstorm ways to use existing structures to improve care. This discussion based group will discuss the variety of SDOH workflows and questionnaires in use across trading partners. We will focus on programs that have been implemented that utilize this information and how the SDOH data is being used. We will also ask ourselves if there are options that could be standardized or expanded across the regions to support at risk patient populations.
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WIEUG / IL-RUG: MyChart Governance Focus Team
Tuesday, August 11, 2026 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
The main objective of this session is to discuss the best practices and challenges associated with "murky" proxy relationships. This includes: adoption nuances; guardians, agencies and group homes (oh my)
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WIEUG / Vital Records / Epic Collaboration
Tuesday, August 11, 2026 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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WIEUG / IL-RUG: Rev Cycle / PBX / Payer Platform Focus Team
Thursday, August 13, 2026 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
Let’s discuss expansion! What are organizations that have implemented the most doing differently and can we learn from them?
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WIEUG / IL-RUG: CE / HIE Optimization Focus Team
Thursday, August 13, 2026 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
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