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NDHI<br />
NAT IONAL DIALOGUE FOR<br />
Healthcare Innovation<br />
• Record Location: Creates a “virtual table of<br />
contents” that specifies the available locations for<br />
patient information<br />
• Patient Identification and Linking: Links each<br />
individual’s clinical records across the care continuum<br />
• Data Query and Retrieval: Enables caregivers to<br />
search, potentially select and receive needed data<br />
across a trusted network<br />
Value Delivered<br />
• The Alliance has grown to include over 50<br />
members, who are all contributing to a shared<br />
interoperability vision<br />
• After just three years in operation, five member<br />
companies are now actively deploying Common-<br />
Well’s services nationwide<br />
• As of June 2016, more than 4,700 provider sites<br />
in all 50 states, D.C., and Puerto Rico use<br />
CommonWell services<br />
• CommonWell is committed to solving the problem<br />
of interoperability across the care continuum<br />
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The Alliance’s interoperability services have<br />
expanded beyond acute and ambulatory care<br />
into post-acute care, with McKesson leading<br />
the deployment efforts in the homecare market<br />
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Eight CommonWell members have committed<br />
to deploying services that enable patients to<br />
access their health data through the network’s<br />
patient portal, empowering patient self-enrollment,<br />
self-linking of health records, and self-query<br />
• CommonWell delivers value to the healthcare<br />
system through:<br />
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Improved access — Interoperability between<br />
health IT systems provides nationwide access<br />
to relevant patient data between systems from<br />
different vendors<br />
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Coordinated patient care — As people move<br />
between hospitals, doctors, and other providers,<br />
their secure, consolidated care histories follow<br />
them, allowing for coordinated care<br />
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Better decision making — Providers and<br />
patients can view the total picture of a patient’s<br />
current and historical care, enabling them to<br />
make comprehensive, informed care decisions<br />
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Reduced overall costs — Centralized patient<br />
records retrieved through a single, universal interface<br />
provide the potential to help lower the costs<br />
of health IT system access and implementation<br />
Path forward<br />
The immediate next steps for CommonWell are to:<br />
• Roll out CommonWell services for new members<br />
• Expand the use cases for all members<br />
Advancement of the CommonWell mission will be<br />
benefitted by legislation or regulation that:<br />
• Distinguishes between intraoperability<br />
and interoperability<br />
• Clearly prohibits information blocking<br />
• Expands patients’ access to their electronic<br />
health data<br />
CommonWell Health Alliance<br />
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