ABILITY Network Becomes Member of CommonWell Health Alliance
August 30 2016 - 10:55AM
Business Wire
Today, ABILITY Network announced it is joining CommonWell Health
Alliance® as a General Member. CommonWell, a non-profit trade
association, is dedicated to the vision that health data should be
available regardless of where care occurs.
According to Black Book, 94 percent of America’s providers,
healthcare agencies, patients and payers are not meaningfully
connected.i In an effort to improve the status quo, CommonWell and
its members have committed to using their diverse experience across
the healthcare continuum to produce and deploy real-world,
cross-vendor interoperability services that will contribute to
improved healthcare delivery and outcomes for providers and the
people they serve.
CommonWell and its members are actively deploying these
interoperability services, which are now live at 4,700 provider
sites nationwide, ranging from large acute hospitals to rural
specialty practices. CommonWell services include patient
enrollment, record location, patient identification and linking,
and data query and retrieval across the healthcare continuum.
“ABILITY Network shares our vision that health data should be
accessible to providers and the people they serve,” said Nick
Knowlton, Membership Committee chair for CommonWell Health Alliance
and vice president at Brightree. “By adding ABILITY Network to our
diverse membership, we can continue to break down the barriers that
have stood in the way of nationwide data exchange.”
ABILITY has been building applications that improve providers’
ability to share information since it was founded in 2000. ABILITY
applications are built from a core secure data exchange between and
among providers and payers. Applications are developed in a
system-agnostic way, helping facilitate the exchange of
administrative, claims, eligibility and some clinical data for
providers across the continuum of care.
“Our membership in CommonWell represents our commitment to
interoperability and complements our mission of helping providers
and payers simplify administrative and clinical complexities of
healthcare,” said Mark A. Pulido, Chairman and CEO of ABILITY
Network. “We are excited about how our position and experience can
help support an effort critical to creating a more effective
healthcare system and improving patient care.”
ABILITY Network joins the Alliance with the intention to
contribute to enhancing nationwide interoperability in healthcare.
To date, more than 50 organizations are members of CommonWell.
For more information on ABILITY Network, visit
www.ABILITYNetwork.com.
About ABILITY NetworkABILITY® Network is a leading
healthcare information technology company helping providers and
payers simplify the administrative and clinical complexities of
healthcare through innovative applications and data analytics.
ABILITY is headquartered in Minneapolis with principal offices in
Boston and Tampa.
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About CommonWell Health AllianceCommonWell Health
Alliance is a not-for-profit trade association of health IT
companies working together to create universal access to health
data nationwide. CommonWell members represent two-thirds of the
acute care EHR marketii and more than one-third of the ambulatory
care EHR marketiii, as well as market leaders and technology
innovators supporting care settings such as post-acute care,
imaging, perinatal, laboratory, retail pharmacy, oncology,
population health, emergency services and more. CommonWell and its
members are committed to the belief that provider access to health
data must be built into information technologies at a reasonable
cost for use by a broad range of healthcare providers and the
populations and people they serve.
To learn more about CommonWell Health Alliance, visit
www.commonwellalliance.org. Engage with CommonWell on our Blog, as
well as through Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter using the handle,
@CommonWell. CommonWell Health Alliance® and the CommonWell logo
are registered trademarks of CommonWell Health Alliance Inc.
i
http://blackbookmarketresearch.com/product/2014-black-book-state-of-the-private-enterprise-health-information-exchange-industry-top-hie-vendors/
ii KLAS - 2016 Hospital EMR Market Share, May 2016. © 2016 KLAS
Enterprises, LLC. All rights
reserved. www.KLASresearch.com
iii SK&A, a Cegedim Company - “Physician Office Usage of EHR
Software” SK&A. February 2016.
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ABILITY NetworkJennifer Marso, 612-277-3953Email:
Jennifer.marso@abilitynetwork.comorCommonWell Health
AllianceKaitlyn Corvino, 312-475-5914Hill+Knowlton StrategiesEmail:
CommonWellPR@HKStrategies.com