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Alliance Updates
Closing Out a Year of Work & Collaboration, Moving to Launch Phase
As CommonWell enters 2014, it’s critical that we, its founding members, translate our enthusiasm for interoperability as a common good into clear value for the health care industry. Early in the year, we will begin to show the world that the underlying workflows we’ve been developing across each of the founding members’ platforms are progressing, and most importantly, will become [...]
CommonWell Announces Launch Geographies and Participants
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 [...]
Members and RelayHealth ‘Connect’ for the Common Good
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 [...]
Video: Cerner User Conference
On October 24, we posted “In Their Words: An excerpt from the CommonWell panel at the Cerner User Conference.” Now available, watch the video capture from this panel discussion. Hear the full session, in which Rich Elmore, VP of Strategic Initiatives – Allscripts, Arien Malec, VP of Strategy – RelayHealth, Tom Wilson, VP of Strategic Programs – Sunquest and Bob [...]
In Their Own Words: An excerpt from the CommonWell panel at the Cerner Health Conference
Update: Read below for a synopsis and excerpts from this session. Video is also available here. For the first time in Cerner Health Conference history, three competitors shared Cerner’s main stage at its opening Power Session on Oct. 9. Rich Elmore, VP of Strategic Initiatives – Allscripts, Arien Malec, VP of Strategy – RelayHealth, and Tom Wilson, VP of Strategic [...]
Football, Pumpkins and Health Care Conferences
It wouldn’t be Fall without a series of health care events taking place around the country. In a recent post, we talked about the great CommonWell conversations that were had at the member user conferences for Sunquest, Allscripts and Greenway. But it doesn’t stop there, CPSI and McKesson hosted their user conferences these past couple weeks, and this week, Cerner [...]
Member Companies Share CommonWell Update with User Communities
Whew. I think we at CommonWell are asking the same thing many of you are… just where did the summer go? Well, for most of our member companies, it was time well spent, not only working hard on our CommonWell efforts, but also preparing for the members’ client conferences across the country. For Sunquest, Allscripts and Greenway, they are just [...]
Seven is the magic number.
Tom and I are excited that CPSI and Sunquest are now part of the CommonWell Health Alliance. Both our organizations are committed to achieving interoperability for the common good and look forward to this collaboration, which includes being among the seven companies working with service provider RelayHealth in the Alliance’s upcoming pilot program. For more than 30 years, CPSI has [...]
Time Flies…
So, you might ask: What have we been doing these past three months since announcing the CommonWell Health Alliance at HIMSS13? Great question! And while the list is long, I am a firm believer in blog brevity. So let’s give this a go and see how I do. Patrice Wolfe addresses Alliance members at the CommonWell Member Summit in [...]
