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Healthcare’s Latest Interoperability Push
Recent collaboration among big-name EHR vendors signals a new push towards greater health information exchange, although barriers in the market still remain Across the healthcare ecosystem, it’s hardly a secret that providers struggle to get pertinent medical...
Collaboration Aims To Boost Data Exchange, Improve Interoperability
Carequality and CommonWell Health Alliance have collaborated to boost data exchange and improve interoperability among providers. As part of the partnership, CommonWell will implement Carequality’s interoperability framework, allowing its members and clients to share...
Impact of eHealth Exchange on Nationwide Interoperability
The eHealth Exchange functions at a national level to connect existing health information networks and healthcare organizations to improve the secure and information flow of patient data. Leveraging existing health IT infrastructure is an integral element of the...
Carequality, CommonWell to Join Forces to Increase Interoperability
CommonWell Health Alliance and Carequality, two of the leaders in advancing data exchange, have agreed to connect their networks. Under the agreement, CommonWell will become a Carequality implementer on behalf of its members and their clients, enabling CommonWell...
Value of Carequality-CommonWell Interoperability Agreement
The health data exchange agreement between The Sequoia Project’s Carequality and vendor-driven CommonWell Health Alliance warrants a second look, according to the President & CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative. In a guest contribution to Life as a...
More Health Orgs Using Surescripts Health Data Exchange Service
Surescripts National Record Locator Services improves health data exchange for 8 more leading health care organizations. In a crucial step toward nationwide interoperability, eight leading healthcare organizations went live with Surescripts National Record Locator...
Cedars-Sinai, Sutter Health, NorthShore, others sign on with Surescripts record locator service
In an expansion that now covers 140 million patients and more than 2 billion patient visits, Surescripts says providers in eight health systems are the most recent to go live with its National Record Locator Service. The NRLS, which operates under the Carequality...
Two Networks Pledge to Work Toward Interoperability
Sometime before mid-2017, one of the greatest divides in health IT today will start to be bridged. Communities supporting two of the leading HIT data exchange networks, managed by CommonWell Health Alliance and Carequality, will begin participating in pilot programs...
7 (plus 1) Predictions for Healthcare IT in 2017
Last year, I had made five predictions for healthcare information technology in 2016. In this, my final post of 2016, I will be reviewing how my predictions turned out, and update the outlook for 2017. As I write this, President Obama has just signed into law the 21st...
Cerner’s Burke: Massive new EHR collaboration ‘a big deal’ for clients
Collaboration between two health care IT nonprofits will pave the way for easier information exchange between records systems. The CommonWell Health Alliance, a trade entity of health IT companies that offers tools for interoperability, will partner with Carequality,...
CommonWell, Carequality Combine EHR Interoperability Efforts
The ability of disparate electronic health records (EHRs) to exchange patient information — known as interoperability — took an important step forward on Wednesday with the announcement that CommonWell Health Alliance and Carequality, the leading private-sector...
Connectivity and Collaboration to Advance Interoperability Agreement
CommonWell Health Alliance (@CommonWell) and Carequality (@CarequalityNet) announced 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...
Sequoia Project forming Patient Identity Matching Workgroup
The Sequoia Project, which operates eHealth Exchange, a national health information network, is calling on industry stakeholders along with policy and technical experts to join a new workgroup to find ways to improve and better standardize patient identity matching...
Sequoia to Launch Patient Matching Workgroup
The Sequoia Project, the purveyor of the health information exchange framework Carequality, is seeking nine to 12 identity matching experts to serve on a workgroup on linking patients to their correct medical records. The group would sort through public comments in...
Patient Identity Management Work Group Announced
The Sequoia Project to Convene Industry and Government to Improve Patient Matching Capabilities Nationwide Call for Participation Now Open VIENNA, VA (December 15, 2016) – The Sequoia Project, a 501(c)3 non-profit committed to identifying and solving the remaining...
Health IT Industry Makes Strides Toward Interoperability this Week
This week, at the HIMSS-produced Connected Health Conference in National Harbor, Maryland, some of those signees staged a live demonstration of interoperability by pulling in medication lists for individual patients from multiple sources. Representatives from New...
Carequality, CommonWell partner on Interoperability, Data Sharing
Carequality and CommonWell Health Alliance have joined forces to increase data exchange and improve interoperability among healthcare providers. Under the collaboration CommonWell will implement Carequality’s interoperability framework on behalf of its members and...
The Sequoia Project Creating Patient Identity Management Workgroup
The Sequoia Project plans to create a new cross-organizational patient identity management workgroup and is seeking healthcare stakeholders, as well as policy and technical experts, to join the workgroup in order to focus on improving patient matching capabilities.
Interoperability breakthrough: 5 things physicians should know
An agreement formed by two health-information connectors represents a major advance for nationwide interoperability, potentially enabling more than 15,000 hospitals, clinics and other health care organizations to share data. This would allow, for example, a Miami...
Carequality, CommonWell Health Alliance to Collaborate
CommonWell Health Alliance and Carequality recently announced an agreement to increase HIT connectivity nationwide. The agreement provides additional health data sharing options to a broad range of stakeholders across health care, and has three aspects: • CommonWell...