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29 02, 2016

CommonWell Kicks off at HIMSS16 in Vegas!

2023-01-31T04:35:25-06:00

Hello from Vegas! HIMSS always feels like the beginning of a New Year to me. Since CommonWell first announced our formation at HIMSS 13 in New Orleans, it has become our tradition to use it as an opportunity to celebrate the past year’s successes, report on our progress and share our future plans. It is also a time to connect with our Alliance members, as well as old and new industry friends. I honestly look forward to it every year. This year, CommonWell is focused on featuring what our amazing members are doing, as we have had quite a past year. We now have 41 members, 21 of whom have a presence on the HIMSS show floor.  Keep an eye out for our CommonWell insignia across the show floor or [...]

CommonWell Kicks off at HIMSS16 in Vegas!2023-01-31T04:35:25-06:00
25 02, 2016

Brightree’s Commitment to bring Interoperability to the Post-Acute Market

2023-01-31T04:35:26-06:00

I’ve been known to make some bold statements as it relates to interoperable data, such as, if post-acute providers cannot share data bi-directionally in the near future with acute care and physician practice management systems, they will lose most if not all of their referral sources. Why so bold? Because it’s the truth! Now more than ever, post-acute care providers are expected to be interoperable.  Unfortunately, post-acute care-focused providers, like home health agencies and hospice organizations, continue to lag behind in interoperability. A little less than two years ago, Brightree joined the Alliance as the first solely post-acute focused software vendor. This endeavor was an investment Brightree made as an advocate for the needs of our customers who don’t traditionally have a large voice in interoperability circles. We worked with [...]

Brightree’s Commitment to bring Interoperability to the Post-Acute Market2023-01-31T04:35:26-06:00
22 02, 2016

CommonWell Services Already Providing Value to Providers, Clinicians Nationwide

2023-01-31T04:35:27-06:00

Since the inception of CommonWell, our focus has been to initiate real change and tangible value to the health care industry through our real-world interoperability services. Today, we have accomplished what many have not been able to–simplifying the process for connecting care for both providers and the people they serve. Our members began their nationwide deployment of CommonWell services in the fall of 2015 and I’ve had the opportunity to meet with many of their providers all over the country to hear about how our services are stacking up. One of the requests I’ve heard time and time again was the need to know what other providers are using CommonWell services. While it seems like a simple request, its complexity lies in the fact that CommonWell doesn’t own this information; [...]

CommonWell Services Already Providing Value to Providers, Clinicians Nationwide2023-01-31T04:35:27-06:00
11 02, 2016

Lucky 7 – Welcome to our Newest CommonWell Members

2023-01-31T04:35:27-06:00

What an amazing start to the year! Today, I am excited to share that CommonWell Health Alliance has welcomed seven new members to our Alliance. These new members augment the reach of CommonWell Services in the ambulatory market, increase its membership representation for provider-engagement, imaging and EMS solutions, as well as expand into the direct-to-consumer arena. Contributor Members eClinicalWorks eClinicalWorks is a cloud-based electronic health record (EHR) company offering solutions for private practices, hospitals, population health, revenue cycle management and patient engagement. It holds the highest market share among all cloud-based EHR vendors, with more than 115,000 providers using its solutions today. lifeIMAGE With more than 150,000 users and 1.5 billion exams exchanged, lifeIMAGE is the nation’s largest and most utilized network for sharing medical imaging information. Its services allow [...]

Lucky 7 – Welcome to our Newest CommonWell Members2023-01-31T04:35:27-06:00
8 02, 2016

CommonWell Services: Improving the Frontlines of Interoperability

2023-01-31T04:35:27-06:00

Like many buzz words, health care “interoperability” can have multiple meanings. For me, it’s quite simple – it’s about making our personal consumer health care interactions more like other seamless, real-time, easy experiences we have in our life. The latest video from CommonWell Health Alliance compares the CommonWell Services’ journey to create nationwide interoperability to the search engine evolution in improving the usability of the internet. It’s exciting to see where we are headed – and made me reflect on my own experiences with health information exchange. I recently got a personal glimpse into the current status quo when I needed to have my medical information from three different facilities shared with a new specialist in a different state. I had three different experiences: Facility #1: I emailed an electronic [...]

CommonWell Services: Improving the Frontlines of Interoperability2023-01-31T04:35:27-06:00
17 12, 2015

Making it real

2023-01-31T04:35:28-06:00

From the beginning, CommonWell Health Alliance has always been about doing something real. Serving real care givers; with the data they really need; to care for real people. That has always been, and continues to be, our goal. It humbles me to see the great amount of work our member companies are putting forth to further our shared mission. In the first half of this year, we tackled a big “boulder” in making national interoperability a reality, by recruiting a number of key HIT organizations into the Alliance. In fact over the course of 2015, our membership grew such that we now represent 70% of the acute care market place and roughly a quarter of the ambulatory marketplace, and a substantial presence in other care settings as well. While that [...]

Making it real2023-01-31T04:35:28-06:00
2 11, 2015

CommonWell ED Guest Blog: Electronic Health Reporter

2023-01-31T04:35:28-06:00

Check our Executive Director Jitin Asnaani’s guest blog on “Transparency, Collaboration, Innovation Key to Achieving Nationwide Interoperability” posted today on Electronic Health Reporter.

CommonWell ED Guest Blog: Electronic Health Reporter2023-01-31T04:35:28-06:00
21 10, 2015

CommonWell is Banking on Nationwide Interoperability

2023-01-31T04:35:28-06:00

Many health IT industry experts have compared the evolution of health care interoperability to the banking industry, particularly in regards to the ATM network. Did you know that it took more than 50 years for Universal ATM access to be established from the time the first ATM was invented in 1939? [1] Or that multivendor software was only running on 28 percent of ATMs worldwide in 2012? [2] If we dig deeper, we discover that one of the challenges merchants and banks faced as the ATM system started to take off in the late 1980’s was dealing with the multiple standards being used. Sound familiar? Just take a brief look at their 50-year journey to see what it took for us to be able to access our money from almost any ATM. 1939 [...]

CommonWell is Banking on Nationwide Interoperability2023-01-31T04:35:28-06:00
8 10, 2015

Social Security Administration joins CommonWell Health Alliance

2023-01-31T04:35:29-06:00

Just days following our CommonWell Fall Summit, where more than a hundred folks from our member companies came together to celebrate our past successes and work on our promising future, I am pleased to announce our 34th member of the Alliance – the Social Security Administration. As this is our first government agency to join CommonWell, we asked them to share their thoughts on why they felt it was important to become a member of CommonWell Health Alliance. Q – For those not as familiar with the SSA, can you provide a brief overview of your organization and describe the challenge you are trying to solve? A –The Social Security Administration is one of the largest disability programs in the world, requesting over 15 million medical records from almost every [...]

Social Security Administration joins CommonWell Health Alliance2023-01-31T04:35:29-06:00
6 10, 2015

CommonWell Annual General Meeting and Fall Summit Focuses on Lessons Learned, Expanding Nationwide Interoperability

2023-01-31T04:35:29-06:00

Last week, CommonWell Health Alliance held its Annual General Meeting and Fall Summit at MEDITECH’s Foxborough, MA campus. MEDITECH, which joined CommonWell in April of this year, was honored to host the Summit and especially excited to welcome all the member attendees to our new, state-of-the-art Joanne Wood Conference Center and Auditorium. As a “newcomer,” it was evident to me right from the start that all CommonWell members, many of whom are direct competitors, checked their vendor agendas at the door. All participants were solely focused on directing their energy towards developing and executing strategies for supporting the Alliance’s mission to provide interoperability solutions at a reasonable cost to improve the quality and safety of patient care. Jitin Asnaani, Executive Director of CommonWell, kicked us off by welcoming all new CommonWell [...]

CommonWell Annual General Meeting and Fall Summit Focuses on Lessons Learned, Expanding Nationwide Interoperability2023-01-31T04:35:29-06:00
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