Six Health IT Companies Join Forces to Develop Interoperable EHR Systems to Better Compete Against Epic’s EHR Product
CommonWell is the name of the new organization formed to create the interoperability that would enable universal access to each patient’s health care records
It was big news in the healthcare IT world when six major healthcare IT companies joined together on March 4 and announced a collaboration intended to develop electronic health record (EHR) systems that are interoperable. That is a goal that can come none too soon for clinical laboratories and anatomic pathology groups.
The collaboration will take the form of an independent nonprofit organization to be called CommonWell Health Alliance. The six companies contributing to the formation of CommonWell are:
- Cerner Corporation (NYSE: CERN)
- McKesson Corporation (NYSE: MCK)
- Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDRX)
- Athenahealth, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATHN)
- Greenway Medical Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: GWAY)
- RelayHealth
