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Nick Knowlton Discusses Interop During the COVID-19 Crisis
CommonWell Board Chairman, Nick Knowlton, recently spoke with Susan Morse of Healthcare Finance about how COVID-19 has been influencing health care and how interoperability is a significant factor in slowing the spread of this virus and future pandemics.
Health Gorilla Enables CommonWell Services for New Health Care Settings
CommonWell Connector™ Health Gorilla now has more than a dozen clients benefiting from CommonWell services. Check out their initial feedback and get an update on how Health Gorilla is continuing to improve health care data access in Puerto Rico.
CommonWell Enables Valley Presbyterian Hospital to Focus on Managing Patient Data Instead of Finding It
Thanks to Valley Presbyterian Hospital’s recent connection to the CommonWell Health Alliance® network and its bridge to the Carequality interoperability framework, VPH clinicians can focus on managing patient data instead of finding it.
Replete® Enables Patients Access to their Health Data
Direct patient access to their health data just became a bit easier as the Replete Health mobile app becomes the latest CommonWell ConnectedTM product to launch.
The Need to Accelerate the Interoperability Ripple Effect in Digital Health
CommonWell Health Alliance was founded on the shared belief that to drive better patient care and improve health outcomes, we need to connect as many care locations as possible across all care settings. Our vision was to unlock the full potential of healthcare IT by connecting as many other participants as possible who are committed to interoperability. Last year, we [...]
What Summer Vacation?!? Connecting to Carequality
While families headed to the beaches, children caught fireflies and parents counted down the time until school was back in session, we at CommonWell have had a very productive summer. There are many updates we are excited to share via our blog in the coming weeks, but the most frequent question I receive is “how is the connection to Carequality [...]
Advancing Exchange, Driving Change
Interoperability has always been a cornerstone of MEDITECH’s vision for healthcare IT. And through our partnership with CommonWell Health Alliance®, we’re pleased to be taking another large step for connectivity, by successfully deploying CommonWell interoperability services at Alliance Community Hospital (ACH) in Alliance, Ohio. As the first fully FHIR-enabled CommonWell member, MEDITECH is leveraging the Argonaut Project’s FHIR specifications to [...]
2018 Update: The Power of Many
Sometimes I forget that I am the only full-time employee of the Alliance. You can easily see why that is if you read any of our most recent blogs. CommonWell is a community effort, and our members are also our leaders, our innovators and our biggest advocates: Morgan Knochel from one of our newest subscribers – OneRecord – shared her [...]
CommonWell FHIR-ing out API requests to MEDITECH
As Brightree shared in the previous blog, FHIR offers many advantages over legacy standards and for that reason, MEDITECH is certifying to be CommonWell’s first fully FHIR enabled member; both supplying and consuming C-CDA documents via FHIR APIs. We have opted to certify using RESTful FHIR APIs for ease, speed, and future-proofing. Because FHIR specifies modern file formats like JSON, [...]
