Connect to the CommonWell QHIN™
CommonWell is a TEFCA™-ready QHIN and boasts more than 70 members connecting thousands of care sites. By connecting your platform to ours, you gain access to purpose-built services and capabilities, a scalable environment, a powerful network, and ongoing collaboration with the ONC.
Our purpose-built platform
At the foundation of our QHIN is a platform that delivers access to robust, complete, and accurate data in a secure environment. The platform is tailored to the needs of our members, capable of growing alongside your organization, and helps ensure alignment with applicable frameworks, including TEFCA. Our services have been built to help you exchange health data beyond your individual systems or communities to connect at scale.
Master Person Index
The Master Person Index (also known as the MPI) collects patient demographics data to create patient indexes so that clinical records can be easier to find, bringing together automation, simplification, and reliability for an enhanced user experience. Users benefit from:
- Access to de-duplicated and merged patient records.
- Algorithmic-driven organization, which evaluates, weights, and scores specific patient attributes, reducing the administrative burden.
- Total control to review, make changes, and match patients as needed.
Record Locator Service
The Record Locator Service (also known as the RLS) attributes the patient index to the care locations where the patient has been seen, organizing organizations to patients. The robust RLS also contributes to the Master Person Index (MPI) so that users can quickly and accurately access the correct information whenever it is needed. Users benefit from:
- An efficient search function that delivers comprehensive results.
- A system that bypasses traditional methods that “geofence” data to a locale around a person’s presumed home address.
- A system that recognizes and is truly inclusive of a national network of care settings.
Data Broker
The data query and retrieval broker, or Data Broker, enables caregivers to search, select, and receive needed data across a trusted network. Users benefit from:
- Connected systems that can request a list of available remote patient content using either X Certificate and Key management (XCA) or Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) queries.
- Queries that return aggregated metadata about all available clinical data to the requesting system, where the requesting user can select the data most valuable to them from a list, all within the familiar interface of the local HIT system.
Trust Network
All of our members agree to operate within the standards of the CommonWell governance, policies, and procedures. CommonWell does not store clinical data and only exchanges data securely and safely. Users benefit from:
- A layered security approach to help ensure the safety of the clinical and demographic data being transferred.
- Defined types of data exchange, which include treatment based on activities as defined by the HIPAA Privacy Rule and patient access through our vendor network.
