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CommonWell Annual General Meeting and Fall Summit Focuses on Lessons Learned, Expanding Nationwide Interoperability
Last week, CommonWell Health Alliance held its Annual General Meeting and Fall Summit at MEDITECH’s Foxborough, MA campus. MEDITECH, which joined CommonWell in April of this year, was honored to host the Summit and especially excited to welcome all the member attendees to our new, state-of-the-art Joanne Wood Conference Center and Auditorium. As a “newcomer,” it was evident to me [...]
Welcome to our Newest CommonWell Members
What a difference a year makes! With the addition of our four newest members, CommonWell now has 33 members, nearly four times the members we had in September 2014. What is most exciting about this quarter’s announcement is that each of these members is already making plans for how they will provide CommonWell services to their clients. These newest members [...]
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 [...]
Jitin Asnaani: Managed Healthcare Executive Blog Post
Check it out! Our own Executive Director Jitin Asnaani was a guest columnist this week for Managed Healthcare Executive. Jump over and read his post — Five private sector interoperability initiatives to watch — on their blog.
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 [...]
Record Locator Services – helping to connect your health history to your current health care
Do you remember using the internet in the mid-1990s? Before search engines had been invented? Before you had Google, Yahoo, Altavista, and so on? How much harder was it to find stuff on the internet? Did you use the Web as much as you do today? Was it even practical for you to do so? Health records face a similar [...]
Moving Closer to True Person-Centered Interoperability
With the bipartisan legislation known as the 21st Century Cures Bill being drafted in the U.S. House of Representatives, which includes mandates that systems be interoperable by the end of 2017 or face reimbursement penalties, the conversation continues around how we can push interoperability forward even faster. And, that’s the right conversation. Person-centered interoperability is essential to our industry’s health reform [...]
#GotInterop – Let CommonWell Health Alliance know!
It’s the third and final day for the Exhibition at HIMSS15. For those of you at the conference, this probably means your feet are aching, your body would like a bit more sleep and your mind is racing to figure out how you are going to make it to all the booths you have yet to see before the show [...]
