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A Shared Vision of Improving Efficiencies and Saving Patients’ Lives
It’s been nearly seven months since Sunquest joined CommonWell Health Alliance. I can say that as the Alliance has progressed and its members have deepened their involvement, it has been a privilege to experience and be a part of it. Just the same as the day we joined, Sunquest is dedicated to achieving interoperability for the common good. We remain [...]
A Year of Promise and Fulfillment
Onstage in New Orleans at HIMSS13, the CommonWell Health Alliance was announced. While presenting the goals and intent of the initiative, the five CEOs within the health IT industry were met with wide media reaction, praise from supporters such as the Bipartisan Policy Center, and admittedly, a dose of skepticism by a few. Could these market competitors across acute and [...]
What Interoperability and CommonWell Mean for Rural Health Providers
Our presence in 48 states, and the community hospitals and providers we serve, made the goal of seamless EHR interoperability a top priority for CPSI. The emergence of CommonWell Health Alliance answered the urgent need for patient information exchange and was the driving force in our becoming a member in 2013. Many of CPSI’s customers are located in a rural [...]
More Than a Vision: The CommonWell Health Alliance in 2014
To appreciate how important it is for the health care system to change, we need only think about the care we want for our loved ones. Most of us have a parent or grandparent or sibling or spouse who has a need for more than one doctor, multiple prescriptions and a large care team. Rich Elmore, our acting vice chair, [...]
What CommonWell Health Alliance is Doing is Personal and Its Important
Patients need this. I know personally how important work like CommonWell's can be to patients in the health care system. I'd like to share a brief personal story. My wife was diagnosed with breast cancer a little more than a year ago. It was a tough year - very challenging. We were facing life or death decisions and needed our [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
