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CommonWell Health Alliance Submits Comments to ONC regarding 21st Century Cures Act: Interoperability, Information Blocking, and the ONC Health IT Certification Program
June 3, 2019 - CommonWell Health Alliance submitted comments to the Office of National Coordinator (ONC) at the Department of Health and Human Services regarding the 21st Century Cures Act, published on March 4, 2019. On the whole, CommonWell is very supportive of the goals and direction articulated by the Cures Act. We believe that the direction laid by The [...]
CommonWell Health Alliance Launches CommonWell ConnectorTM Program
February 5, 2019–CommonWell Health Alliance today announced a new option for health IT vendors and health care practitioners looking to connect to the nationwide CommonWell interoperability network. Through creation of this new CommonWell Connector™ program, participating CommonWell members who provide integration platforms and services will now be able to offer CommonWell services to their customers, including both to provider organizations [...]
CommonWell Health Alliance Announces General Availability of Carequality Connection
November 16, 2018—CommonWell Health Alliance today announced the rollout of its connection to the Carequality Framework, which is now Generally Available to CommonWell members and will increase health IT connectivity nationwide. The connection will allow CommonWell- and Carequality-enabled health care providers, through some of the industry’s largest participating EHR vendors, to connect and bilaterally exchange health data to improve care [...]
CommonWell Health Alliance Submits Comments to ONC regarding draft TEFCA and USCDI
February 20, 2018—CommonWell Health Alliance submitted comments to the Office of National Coordinator (ONC) at the Department of Health and Human Services regarding the draft Trusted Exchange Framework (TEFCA) published on January 5, 2018, as well as the accompanying US Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI) draft. We emphasized our support of the goals and direction articulated by TEFCA, noting our [...]
CommonWell Becomes First National Network to Use the Argonaut Project’s FHIR Specifications
February 16, 2017—CommonWell Health Alliance® today announced it has completed building the first set of The Argonaut Project’s FHIR specifications into its core services—making it the first national network to enable comprehensive FHIR-based-exchange at scale. CommonWell, recognizing its critical role in improving nationwide health data exchange, has been using FHIR since 2013 when it first developed its core interoperability services [...]
CommonWell Expanding Services as More Members Commit to Deploy Nationwide
February 15, 2017—CommonWell Health Alliance® today announced that 14 members have committed to building new application programming interfaces (APIs) that will complement existing services and increase the value of the CommonWell network to individuals and caregivers. The existing CommonWell services, which include person enrollment, record location, patient identification and linking, and data query and retrieval, are all live nationwide. The [...]
Carequality and CommonWell Health Alliance Agree on Connectivity and Collaboration to Advance Interoperability
December 13, 2016—CommonWell Health Alliance and Carequality announced today an agreement to increase health IT connectivity nationwide. The agreement provides additional health data sharing options to a broad range of stakeholders across healthcare, and has three aspects: CommonWell will become a Carequality implementer on behalf of its members and their clients, enabling CommonWell subscribers to engage in health information exchange [...]
CommonWell Members Enable Patient Access to Their Health Data
August 23, 2016—CommonWell Health Alliance® today announced that members will be giving patients access to their health data for the first time via the CommonWell network. This access will be made possible by extending existing CommonWell services to enable a person to self-enroll in CommonWell, self-link their health records wherever they receive care, and self-query and view their health data [...]
CommonWell Announces National Deployment of Interoperability Services to the Post-Acute Market
February 24, 2016—CommonWell Health Alliance® today announced the availability of its cross-vendor interoperability services to the post-acute market. Brightree, Cerner and McKesson are among the first CommonWell members that have committed to deploying these services nationwide in 2016. Each year more than 10 million Medicare beneficiaries are discharged from acute care hospitals into a variety of post-acute care settings, including [...]
