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CommonWell Services: Improving the Frontlines of Interoperability
Like many buzz words, health care “interoperability” can have multiple meanings. For me, it’s quite simple – it’s about making our personal consumer health care interactions more like other seamless, real-time, easy experiences we have in our life. The latest video from CommonWell Health Alliance compares the CommonWell Services’ journey to create nationwide interoperability to the search engine evolution in [...]
Record Locator Services – helping to connect your health history to your current health care
Do you remember using the internet in the mid-1990s? Before search engines had been invented? Before you had Google, Yahoo, Altavista, and so on? How much harder was it to find stuff on the internet? Did you use the Web as much as you do today? Was it even practical for you to do so? Health records face a similar [...]
My mother (and yours) deserves nationwide care coordination
Focused hard work, a game-changing service offering and a shared collaborative spirit across members – that is what has made today’s announcement regarding CommonWell’s nationwide expansion possible. I am extremely excited by the prospect that CommonWell is well on its way to making a difference for our fragmented health care system. As the chair of the CommonWell program management committee, I [...]
CommonWell Moves Forward with Nationwide Expansion of Services
Today is an exciting day at CommonWell Health Alliance. If you haven’t seen yet, we announced another chapter in our fast-paced progress towards improving health information technology (HIT) interoperability – the nationwide availability of our services. After our successful initial launch in four geographies, now our members can focus on expanding their CommonWell service offerings to their clients across the [...]
New Members, New Gatherings and New Beginnings
You may have noticed that we have been a bit quiet on our CommonWell Community blog lately. To be honest, things have been pretty exciting and busy. We have been bringing on new members, hosting our annual Fall Member Summit and finalizing our Commercial Services contract. Whew. I get tired just thinking about all we have been doing. Having been [...]
