Tag: CommonWell Health Alliance

ATLANTA - Brightree's home health and hospice customers will now have access to more than 50,000 locations and health systems nationwide through an integration with CommonWell Health Alliance, a nonprofit trade association of health IT companies. Brightree customers will be able to quickly obtain documents and data from a patient's previous hospital and physician visits and share patient updates with providers in the CommonWell network. “What this amounts to is a smoother journey for patients...

BOSTON - The CommonWell Health Alliance, which counts Brightree as one of its members, will give patients access to their health data for the first time via the CommonWell network, it has announced. Patients will be able to self-enroll, self-link their health records wherever they receive care, and self-query their health on the network. They will also be able to give their providers instant access to their health data, which could help improve care and coordination. “Far too often individuals...

BOSTON - CommonWell Health Alliance, a not-for-profit trade association of health IT companies, has made its cross-vendor interoperability services available to its members, including Brightree and McKesson, the association announced today. Of the 10 million Medicare beneficiaries who are discharged from acute care hospitals every year, more than 66% have two or more chronic conditions, while 14% have six or more. “This patient population typically requires care from multiple providers in a...