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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 [...]
Experiences from the Newest Member of CommonWell, MEDHOST
More connected care communities and data availability not only help providers deliver the best care possible, but they also give patients the opportunity to more actively participate in their healthcare. It’s for these reasons that MEDHOST joined the CommonWell Health Alliance as a Contributing Member earlier this year. We share CommonWell’s mission of improving providers’ access to patient data while [...]
CommonWell Update and Demonstration Webinar Recap
CommonWell’s journey over the past 14 months has been an exciting one, and I had the pleasure of recounting it in a recent webinar. Joining me to present were CommonWell colleagues from athenahealth, Cerner and CPSI who provided a demonstration how the CommonWell services work across the different EHR systems, allowing providers to query and retrieve patient data. In case [...]
Updates, Demonstrations and More!
What a first year CommonWell Health Alliance has had in formalizing our not-for-profit trade association, adding new members, launching our services in four geographies and releasing our initial specs to the public. Last month at HIMSS14, we appreciated the positive reaction we received from attendees as they watched our founding member companies demonstrate CommonWell services working across different EHRs at [...]
A Vision Turned into Reality: Real World Provider Examples
Nothing is quite so pleasant in the world of Health IT than seeing an idea you have worked on brought to life to help providers and patients improve healthcare. In May 2012, Dr. David McCallie emailed me with an idea he had been thinking about since a Bi-Partisan Center meeting raised the critical issue of patient linking across settings, just [...]
One Exciting Year Later: Services Live and Specs Available
One year ago today I saw the CEOs and Sr. Executives of 5 top HIT vendors put away their competitive nature and make a pledge to build seamless, plug-and-play interoperability into their products, all for the common good. In order to turn this vision into a reality, technical teams from all the companies came together under the working group name [...]
