11 12, 2013

CommonWell Announces Launch Geographies and Participants

2023-01-31T04:37:18-06:00

CommonWell Health Alliance is thrilled to announce today that we are launching our interoperability services in early 2014 at select provider locations in the following geographies:  Chicago, Illinois; Elkin and Henderson, North Carolina; and Columbia, South Carolina. Just 9 months and 1 week ago, we announced CommonWell at HIMSS13, and today, we are proud to share that we are making a huge leap in bringing our cross-supplier data liquidity services to market. As a health IT supplier-led effort, we have the vision that patient data should be available to the patient and their health care providers regardless of where the care occurs or what health IT system the provider uses. Representing a variety of different settings, participating customers of the alliance members who have signed up for the initial launch [...]

CommonWell Announces Launch Geographies and Participants2023-01-31T04:37:18-06:00
4 12, 2013

Members and RelayHealth ‘Connect’ for the Common Good

2023-01-31T04:37:18-06:00

There are twenty-seven acronyms in Margalit Gur-Arie’s “History of Healthcare Interoperability.” 27! (That’s nearly 2% of the article.) She keeps a straight face throughout the piece, but it reads almost like a parody—the interop landscape is complicated. Byzantine, even. As you know, the CommonWell Health Alliance aims to straighten this all out. Once health IT systems can communicate seamlessly with each other, healthcare providers will have easy, fast, and secure access to the clinical history for their patients, patients won’t be frustrated by filling out the same paperwork over and over, human error will be mitigated, and care will improve for everybody. With that in mind, I’m very pleased to report that we watched the national health IT ecosystem move substantially closer to that vision of real, sustainable interoperability [...]

Members and RelayHealth ‘Connect’ for the Common Good2023-01-31T04:37:18-06:00
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