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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 [...]
Celebrating a year of collaboration, achievements and innovations
It hardly seems possible that it was 16 months ago when I stood on stage alongside the CEOs of athenahealth, Cerner, Greenway and McKesson to announce this industry-led endeavor for interoperability. As with many things, it seems like such a short time to have accomplished all that we have. The now nine members of the CommonWell Health Alliance really have [...]
Welcoming new members to CommonWell Health Alliance
Today, CommonWell Health Alliance officially opens its doors to institutions who are committed to our vision that health data should be available to individuals and providers regardless of where care occurs, and that access to this data must be built into health IT at a reasonable cost for use by a broad range of healthcare providers and the people they [...]
CommonWell Health Alliance is Honored in Winter/Spring 2014 Web Health Awards(SM) Competition
CommonWell Health Alliance was selected as a winner in the 16th annual Web Health Awards(SM) program. This competition — held twice each year: Winter/Spring and Summer/Fall — recognizes the nation’s best digital health resources. The CommonWell Health Alliance Website (commonwellprod.wpengine.com) received a Silver Award in the Web-based Resource category. Those involved in the production and design of CommonWell Health Alliance [...]
CommonWell in the News: Group Of Electronic Health Record Vendors To Become Officially Interoperable
While summer is typically the time for family road trips and relaxing by the pool, we at CommonWell are working hard to drive forward our vision that health data should be available to individuals and providers regardless of where care occurs, and that provider access to this data must be built-in health IT at a reasonable cost for use by [...]
Meet Susan: How CommonWell is Helping Us All, as Patients
Health care. To those of us in the industry, the term implies many complexities. For patients, the issues may be complex, but the questions are simple: “How can I get well? And how can I stay well?” Everyone has a personal story—and his or her own challenges —when it comes to the complexity of the health care system. Yet, we [...]
