NEWS CENTER / COMMONWELL BLOG
Alliance Updates
Celebrating our award-winning website!
We are humbled to share that for the second time CommonWellAlliance.org has been recognized as an award-winning website. Earlier this month, the Digital Health Awards selected our redesigned site, which launched last October, as a bronze winner in the website category. It is an honor we share with our Digital Marketing agency Chatter Buzz Media. It is also an honor [...]
Faces of CommonWell 2015
Since our inception in 2013, CommonWell has focused on putting a face to our mission – from our fictitious cancer patient Susan taking us on the journey of how CommonWell works to our member company representatives sharing their view of why nationwide interoperability is a game changer. When we released our first Faces of CommonWell video in June 2013, we [...]
Welcome to our Newest CommonWell General Members
I am excited to announce our latest membership additions. This month, we continue to build upon our strong representation from the wonderful health IT vendors market, and we begin to expand our membership to incorporate new healthcare stakeholders outside of the vendor community. We have four new General Members. Two are strong IT companies – Caremerge and T-System, who help [...]
My mother (and yours) deserves nationwide care coordination
Focused hard work, a game-changing service offering and a shared collaborative spirit across members – that is what has made today’s announcement regarding CommonWell’s nationwide expansion possible. I am extremely excited by the prospect that CommonWell is well on its way to making a difference for our fragmented health care system. As the chair of the CommonWell program management committee, I [...]
CommonWell Welcomes Kareo, MEDITECH, Merge, PointClickCare & SIS!
Spring has certainly been busy on the membership front at CommonWell. We recently announced new members just a few weeks ago and today it is my pleasure to share more great news. Kareo, MEDITECH and Merge have joined the Alliance as contributing members. PointClickCare and Surgical Information Systems (SIS) have joined the Alliance as General Members. More about our new [...]
A New Era
After decades of churn, burn, progress and regress, the forces of technology and business are slowly but surely zeroing in on what should have been obvious in the first place: health and care need to be centered around the Person. When a patient or a provider wants to know the patient’s health and care history, they should not be limited [...]
CommonWell Turns Two! Making Nationwide Interoperability a Reality
March 4th marks a key milestone – Two years ago on this date, five CEOs of some of the largest Health IT companies decided to work together to break down barriers to nationwide data exchange. This dedication to the common good paved the way for health care interoperability. CommonWell Health Alliance proves that collaboration and dedication drives innovation and real-world [...]
CommonWell Moves Forward with Nationwide Expansion of Services
Today is an exciting day at CommonWell Health Alliance. If you haven’t seen yet, we announced another chapter in our fast-paced progress towards improving health information technology (HIT) interoperability – the nationwide availability of our services. After our successful initial launch in four geographies, now our members can focus on expanding their CommonWell service offerings to their clients across the [...]
CommonWell’s Commitment to our Industry, our Members, and their Providers and Patients
Anyone and everyone can talk interoperability, but CommonWell Health Alliance members are all committed to building interoperability into their software so that providers can work seamlessly within their existing workflow. Members have made tangible headway on that effort by focusing on four initial services that facilitate exchange: identity management, record locator, consent management and trusted data access. The notion that CommonWell [...]
