With so many accomplishments to celebrate and with the Alliance primed for what’s next under TEFCA, it’s an exciting time to take stock. We’re humbled to watch some of our many supporters share their memories and well-wishes to honor our #DecadeofConnections. Watch and share: Read what CommonWell Executive Director Paul L Wilder has to say about this important milestone in a profile on Healthcare IT Today. To see more milestones visit: https://www.commonwellalliance.org/about/milestones/.

BOSTON – February 13, 2023 — On February 13, 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra recognized CommonWell Health Alliance for its application approval to potentially become one of the Qualified Health Information Networks (QHINs) that will make up the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA). “CommonWell Health Alliance is proud to move on to the next onboarding step to becoming a designated QHIN. CommonWell’s existing network capabilities are well positioned to support the technical objectives of TEFCA and the industry as a whole,” said Paul L Wilder, executive director of CommonWell Health Alliance. “We congratulate all the other prospective QHINs and look forward to working with them, the ONC, and the Recognized Coordinating Entity to reach those goals and to continue improving [...]

BOSTON – August 31, 2022 - The CommonWell Health Alliance® today announced its intention to apply to become one of the first Qualified Health Information Networks (QHIN) as part of the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA). CommonWell will submit its application with the first set of submissions. This move follows The Sequoia Project, the Recognized Coordinating Entity for TEFCA, releasing the final Qualified Health Information Network (QHIN) application this week. TEFCA—which was published earlier this year by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health Information Technology—includes a common set of principles, terms, and conditions to support the development of a Common Agreement that would take the nationwide exchange of electronic health information (EHI) to the next level. The success [...]

BOSTON – May 26, 2022 – For the first time, CommonWell Health Alliance® hosted a connectathon with 11 of its Service Adopters to test its Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) services as it works to build the next generation of FHIR for clinical data exchange. While CommonWell has been using FHIR for document-based exchange for some time, it’s now preparing to bring fully scaled discrete FHIR resource exchange to the network in the future. The combination of FHIR with the CommonWell Record Locator Service (RLS) will give providers the ability to locate FHIR resources for a given patient and query specific smaller pieces of patient data such as labs, medications and allergies—in addition to documents. This facilitated exchange model strives to bring a practical FHIR-at-scale model to the industry and [...]

Adds Service Provider to Help Streamline Payment & Health Care Operations Processes BOSTON – Oct. 21, 2020 – CommonWell Health Alliance® today announced it is extending its interoperability services to enable additional use cases beyond treatment and patient access, starting with Payment and Health Care Operations data requests. Despite strides made in electronic clinical data exchange, existing payments and operations processes providing access to protected health information (PHI) remain archaic, predominantly manual, expensive, error-prone and time consuming. The additional functionality provided by the new use case aims to end these outmoded processes, improve quality of care and drive efficiency across the health care continuum. To support this effort, CommonWell has added a new service provider, DataFile Exchange, to support the operational services specific to the Payment and Health Care Operations [...]

Feb. 20, 2020–Replete® is proud to announce its launch into the health-tech market with a first-of-its-kind mobile application that will allow consumers to access their health data, including electronic health records, lab tests results and vaccination and immunization records, as well as help consumers track and maintain their health goals. The app features cutting edge artificial intelligence (A.I.) and machine learning that will detect the decline of clinical efficacy of any treatment/medications based on a consumer’s feelings and nudge them and their physician to act upon the health changes. Allowing consumers to access their health data can only be possible if they are securely verified. As such, Replete has worked with a credit rating agency to build an ID Verification solution that protects and allows health records to be available [...]

Dec. 10, 2019 – CommonWell Health Alliance today announced Paul L. Wilder as its new Executive Director. Paul takes the helm of CommonWell as it enters a new chapter in its pursuit of empowering clinicians, practitioners and individuals with interoperability services via its robust, nationwide network. “Paul has been involved in health IT since before interoperability became a national priority,” said Scott Schneider, chairman of the CommonWell Health Alliance Board of Directors. “His experience gives him a broad range of skills that will be instrumental in moving CommonWell forward at a critical time in our journey.” With more than two decades of health IT experience, Wilder has held various roles focusing on imaging, clinical informatics and interoperability. Most recently, he was Vice President of Strategy & Business Development for [...]

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 and to other end-user facing platforms such as EHRs. “The CommonWell network enables participating practitioners to meaningfully engage in data exchange to provide the best care possible for their patients,” said Jitin Asnaani, CommonWell Health Alliance executive director. “With this new option, organizations interested in connecting to CommonWell, such as EHRs, can dramatically reduce the development effort required to connect to the CommonWell network and enable their clients to participate [...]

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 coordination and delivery. “We are proud to break down yet another barrier to interoperability by making this much-anticipated connection available to our members and their clients,” said Jitin Asnaani, CommonWell Health Alliance executive director. “This increased connectivity will serve to empower providers with access to patient health data critical to their health care decision-making.” Leveraging the technological infrastructure built by CommonWell service provider Change Healthcare, members Cerner and Greenway Health [...]

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 and person-centric national network. By building the latest set of FHIR specifications, all CommonWell Members will be able to leverage FHIR-based outbound query and retrieve capabilities to access data across the network. Brightree will be the first to deploy this capability to clients across the country this year and has already built FHIR-based workflows into their technology. By implementing the latest FHIR specifications, CommonWell and its members have made it [...]