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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 [...]
Closing Out a Year of Work & Collaboration, Moving to Launch Phase
As CommonWell enters 2014, it’s critical that we, its founding members, translate our enthusiasm for interoperability as a common good into clear value for the health care industry. Early in the year, we will begin to show the world that the underlying workflows we’ve been developing across each of the founding members’ platforms are progressing, and most importantly, will become [...]
CommonWell Announces Launch Geographies and Participants
CommonWell Health Alliance is thrilled to announce today that we are launching our interoperability services in early 2014 at select provider locations in the following geographies: Chicago, Illinois; Elkin and Henderson, North Carolina; and Columbia, South Carolina. Just 9 months and 1 week ago, we announced CommonWell at HIMSS13, and today, we are proud to share that we are making [...]
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 [...]
Introducing our Board of Directors
As you may have seen this morning, CommonWell Health Alliance is officially an incorporated trade association and with that comes the election of our Board of Directors. As I said in our press release, I am proud and very fortunate to have such a talented group of individuals joining me on the Board. We have been working collaboratively for the [...]
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 [...]
Football, Pumpkins and Health Care Conferences
It wouldn’t be Fall without a series of health care events taking place around the country. In a recent post, we talked about the great CommonWell conversations that were had at the member user conferences for Sunquest, Allscripts and Greenway. But it doesn’t stop there, CPSI and McKesson hosted their user conferences these past couple weeks, and this week, Cerner [...]
The Business Model for Interoperability
Much of the recent discussion around making interoperability a widespread success has shifted from technical standards and capabilities to business dynamics. In its August report, Principles and Strategy for Accelerating Health Information Exchange and Advancing Interoperability, the Department of Health & Human Services puts it front and center: “Both providers and their vendors do not yet have a business imperative [...]
