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NDHI<br />

NAT IONAL DIALOGUE FOR<br />

Healthcare Innovation<br />

CommonWell Health Alliance<br />

Organization Overview<br />

• McKesson is the oldest and largest health care<br />

company in the nation, serving more than 50% of<br />

U.S. hospitals, 20% of physicians, and 96% of the<br />

top 25 health plans<br />

• The company collaborates with health care organizations<br />

of all types to strengthen the health of their<br />

businesses, by helping them control costs, develop<br />

efficiencies, and improve quality<br />

• McKesson is a founding member of the CommonWell<br />

Health Alliance ® , an organization committed<br />

to creating and executing a vendor-neutral<br />

interoperability platform<br />

Background<br />

Current healthcare data is fragmented and siloed. As<br />

a result, health IT systems function effectively only<br />

in pockets, rather than benefiting the system as a<br />

whole. In order to advance healthcare, it is critical for<br />

interoperability to be built into all health IT systems as<br />

an inherent attribute, rather than being added on as an<br />

afterthought. CommonWell was formed with a vision<br />

of ubiquitous interoperability, enabling all patients and<br />

providers to access relevant health data, regardless<br />

of where the patient’s care occurs.<br />

Collaboration Details<br />

CommonWell was announced at the Healthcare Information<br />

and Management Systems Society annual<br />

conference in March 2013. It is primarily focused on<br />

nationwide deployment of a patient-centered, cross-vendor<br />

interoperability infrastructure.<br />

The platform:<br />

• Aims to unite all health information technology<br />

vendors to create a seamless, vendor-neutral<br />

platform for effective health data exchange<br />

• Focuses on providing access at a reasonable cost,<br />

for use by a broad range of healthcare providers<br />

and the people that they serve<br />

• Promotes the development of common standards<br />

and policies to create a national infrastructure<br />

Founding members of CommonWell include:<br />

• McKesson<br />

• Allscripts<br />

• athenahealth<br />

• Cerner<br />

• Evident<br />

• Greenway Health<br />

• Sunquest<br />

RelayHealth, a McKesson company, has been responsible<br />

for developing the service offerings that enable CommonWell<br />

to provide interoperability to its members.<br />

Less than two years after CommonWell’s launch, the<br />

initial member services were rolled out in four states.<br />

These core services include:<br />

• Person Enrollment: Enables each individual to<br />

be registered and uniquely identified in the CommonWell<br />

network<br />

An Initiative of the<br />

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CommonWell Health Alliance

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