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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
