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31 03, 2014

Updates, Demonstrations and More!

2023-01-31T04:37:13-06:00

What a first year CommonWell Health Alliance has had in formalizing our not-for-profit trade association, adding new members, launching our services in four geographies and releasing our initial specs to the public. Last month at HIMSS14, we appreciated the positive reaction we received from attendees as they watched our founding member companies demonstrate CommonWell services working across different EHRs at different health provider sites. In response to ongoing requests to see our services in action, we will be hosting two webinars in the month of April. Join us for one or both sessions, where we will provide an update on the progress we have made over the last 12 months, as well as feature our founding member companies demonstrating CommonWell services to enroll and match a patient, and then query [...]

Updates, Demonstrations and More!2023-01-31T04:37:13-06:00
6 03, 2014

A Vision Turned into Reality: Real World Provider Examples

2023-01-31T04:37:13-06:00

Nothing is quite so pleasant in the world of Health IT than seeing an idea you have worked on brought to life to help providers and patients improve healthcare. In May 2012, Dr. David McCallie emailed me with an idea he had been thinking about since a Bi-Partisan Center meeting raised the critical issue of patient linking across settings, just as I had been about to email him about the same idea. Between that time and HIMSS13, we conceived of the key ideas that eventually became the core CommonWell Health Alliance services: patient matching, patient linking and link management, authorization and consent, record locator services and data access brokering. But it takes more than an idea to improve care, and a much larger team worked between HIMSS13 and HIMSS14 on [...]

A Vision Turned into Reality: Real World Provider Examples2023-01-31T04:37:13-06:00
4 03, 2014

One Exciting Year Later: Services Live and Specs Available

2023-01-31T04:37:14-06:00

One year ago today I saw the CEOs and Sr. Executives of 5 top HIT vendors put away their competitive nature and make a pledge to build seamless, plug-and-play interoperability into their products, all for the common good. In order to turn this vision into a reality, technical teams from all the companies came together under the working group name Standards, Technology & Implementation Group to accomplish this pledge. At the time of our announcement at HIMSS 2013, our respective technical groups were excited, driven and likely a little apprehensive about what it would take to work across all these competing organizations. However, the teams rapidly came together as a cohesive unit, brainstorming and fleshing out core concepts and standards. We quickly committed to utilizing established standards wherever possible (e.g., [...]

One Exciting Year Later: Services Live and Specs Available2023-01-31T04:37:14-06:00
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