What You Should Know: - Fresenius Kidney Care, the dialysis services division of Fresenius Medical Care North America, rolled out CommonWell health data exchange services to its dialysis facilities nationwide. - This initiative is a significant stride towards better-coordinated care for patients requiring life-sustaining dialysis for kidney failure and will enable the real-time exchange of critical patient health information--allowing healthcare providers to access the most
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Carequality Interoperability Framework
eHealth Exchange Integrates FHIR Directory with InterSystems to Power Network Expansion
eHealth Exchange, a nationwide health information networks connecting the public and private sectors, announced it will integrate its FHIR Healthcare Directory with InterSystems solutions. The integration will enable the HIE network to enhance its patient-centric services while also completing its implementation of the Carequality Interoperability Framework, which is used by an estimated 600,000 physicians to share data today across and among networks. Integration DetailsThe eHealth Exchange
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Carequality, CommonWell Collaborate to Advance Interoperability, Health Data Exchange
CommonWell Health Alliance and Carequality have announced an agreement that will provide the capability for more than 15,000 hospitals, clinics, and other healthcare organizations to connect and share health information. The collaboration brings together two pioneers at the forefront of data sharing. Health data sharing among providers is important whenever a provider is making a diagnostic or treatment decision and needs access to key medical information. By leveraging health IT
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GE Healthcare, Netsmart, Others Adopt Carequality Interoperability Framework
Carequality, an initiative of The Sequoia Project, announced five new adopters of the Carequality Interoperability Framework: Coordinated Care Oklahoma, GE Healthcare, Kno2, Netsmart, and OneRecord. These new Carequality adopters represent the diversity of the larger Carequality community – large and small, HIE and consumer access platform. The organizations join athenahealth®, eClinicalWorks, Epic, NextGen Healthcare and Surescripts in contracting to implement the comprehensive
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athenahealth, eClinicalWorks, Epic, NextGen Healthcare, Surescripts First to Adopt Interoperability Framework
Today, The Sequoia Project, an independent advocate for nationwide health information exchange, announced that athenahealth, eClinicalWorks, Epic, NextGen Healthcare and Surescripts are the first to adopt enhanced data sharing practices under the new Carequality Interoperability Framework. This big step is in alignment with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s (ONC) Connecting Health and Care for the Nation: A
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