29 07, 2014

The Post-Acute Perspective: Ensuring Seamless Communication During Transition of Care

2023-01-31T04:37:09-06:00

Mounting industry pressures have placed interoperability at the forefront of healthcare executives’ minds, affecting the clinical, financial and operational perspective of each organization. And as the industry refocuses on interoperability across the care continuum, it is ever more critical to include the post-acute care industry within the bigger healthcare picture. Post-acute care providers are increasing their use of information technology to align more closely with acute care providers to enhance patient outcomes and reduce the cost of care. In fact, studies have shown that seamless communication during the transition between acute and post-acute care can lead to benefits such as less medication errors, reduced hospital readmissions and improved patient satisfaction. To represent the post-acute care industry’s commitment to quality patient care, Brightree is proud to join other CommonWell Health Alliance [...]

The Post-Acute Perspective: Ensuring Seamless Communication During Transition of Care2023-01-31T04:37:09-06:00
10 07, 2014

Celebrating a year of collaboration, achievements and innovations

2023-01-31T04:37:09-06:00

It hardly seems possible that it was 16 months ago when I stood on stage alongside the CEOs of athenahealth, Cerner, Greenway and McKesson to announce this industry-led endeavor for interoperability. As with many things, it seems like such a short time to have accomplished all that we have. The now nine members of the CommonWell Health Alliance really have made amazing progress since we announced at HIMSS in March 2013. We welcomed new founding members representing important healthcare segments such as lab (Sunquest) and rural/community/critical-access hospitals (CPSI). We welcomed new contributing members representing other critical segments such as pharmacy (CVS) and psychiatric/behavioral/LTAC (MedHost). We published services and use case specifications, launched services at 14 sites in four communities and enrolled more than 10,000 patients in the CommonWell database. And [...]

Celebrating a year of collaboration, achievements and innovations2023-01-31T04:37:09-06:00
1 07, 2014

Welcoming new members to CommonWell Health Alliance

2023-01-31T04:37:10-06:00

Today, CommonWell Health Alliance officially opens its doors to institutions who are committed to our vision that health data should be available to individuals and providers regardless of where care occurs, and that access to this data must be built into health IT at a reasonable cost for use by a broad range of healthcare providers and the people they serve. Just over a year ago, the Alliance was formed with an unambiguous focus on rapidly demonstrating real-world data exchange and mitigating execution risks for our members and providers as early as possible. As such, we put a high bar on members’ commitment, so that membership would be centered on self-selected health IT companies who chose to heavily invest time, effort and resources to incubate and launch CommonWell and its [...]

Welcoming new members to CommonWell Health Alliance2023-01-31T04:37:10-06:00
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