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Alliance Updates
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 [...]
New Members, New Gatherings and New Beginnings
You may have noticed that we have been a bit quiet on our CommonWell Community blog lately. To be honest, things have been pretty exciting and busy. We have been bringing on new members, hosting our annual Fall Member Summit and finalizing our Commercial Services contract. Whew. I get tired just thinking about all we have been doing. Having been [...]
Join our webinar to learn more about becoming a member of CommonWell!
Interested in becoming a member of CommonWell Health Alliance? We recently opened up an additional Membership category – General Membership, which provides different options for prospective organizations interested in becoming part of our first-of-its-kind, vendor-led Alliance targeted at improving interoperability in our industry. Want to learn more? Join us for one of our upcoming Webinars where we will provide an [...]
CommonWell’s JASON Task Force testimony: A shared vision for a national “Robust Healthcare Architecture”
On July 31, I delivered testimony to the JASON Task Force and posited that the CommonWell Health Alliance can fulfill the vision of a national “Robust Healthcare Architecture” as expounded upon in the JASON Report, discussed more below. By way of background, members of the JASON Task Force consists of a subset of the members of the HIT Standards Committee [...]
The Post-Acute Perspective: Ensuring Seamless Communication During Transition of Care
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 [...]
