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11 02, 2014

A Year of Promise and Fulfillment

2023-01-31T04:37:16-06:00

Onstage in New Orleans at HIMSS13, the CommonWell Health Alliance was announced. While presenting the goals and intent of the initiative, the five CEOs within the health IT industry were met with wide media reaction, praise from supporters such as the Bipartisan Policy Center, and admittedly, a dose of skepticism by a few. Could these market competitors across acute and ambulatory segments live up to the embrace? Was it all for show? Could they really get anything done and so on. I recall McKesson CEO John Hammergren deeming the Alliance an “inflection point in health care.” Now as HIMSS14 approaches and CommonWell plans to focus on announcements and initial successes in Orlando matching those goals and intent, I think we can call the combined achievements of the past year a [...]

A Year of Promise and Fulfillment2023-01-31T04:37:16-06:00
3 10, 2013

The Business Model for Interoperability

2023-01-31T04:37:20-06:00

Much of the recent discussion around making interoperability a widespread success has shifted from technical standards and capabilities to business dynamics. In its August report, Principles and Strategy for Accelerating Health Information Exchange and Advancing Interoperability, the Department of Health & Human Services puts it front and center: “Both providers and their vendors do not yet have a business imperative to electronically share person-level health information across providers and settings of care that exceeds the cost of doing so.” And in the eHealth Initiative’s most recent survey of more than 100 established HIEs, “developing a sustainable business model” and “competitive positioning in the marketplace” outweighed “addressing technical barriers” as their top challenges. This is all good news in terms of consensus that transport and content standards — from Direct to [...]

The Business Model for Interoperability2023-01-31T04:37:20-06:00
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