With health payers gearing up to meet the CMS interoperability compliance deadlines in 2021, the CommonWell Health Alliance recently announced that it is expanding its interoperability services for meeting these deadlines.

According to CommonWell, existing payments and operations processes providing access to protected health information (PHI) remain archaic, predominantly manual, expensive, error-prone and time-consuming.

The organization will now facilitate the automated exchange of data requests from a broader set of users, including payers, record locator vendors and other qualified entities.

“CommonWell is maturing as an organization, and we see this new collaboration and service offering as the next step towards helping us collectively achieve national interoperability and the quadruple aim,” said Paul Wilder, executive director of CommonWell Health Alliance, in this press release. “CommonWell is well-positioned to be one of the largest request networks in the nation offering this type of functionality.”

Since its launch in 2013, the CommonWell Health Alliance has advanced universal access to health data nationwide through the development of a vendor-neutral platform that breaks down health data exchange barriers, as well as promoting a national infrastructure with common standards and policies.

Today, the organization enables the federated exchange of patient information across more than 17,000 provider sites representing 100 million individuals on its nationwide network alone. To date, more than 790 million health documents have been exchanged across the CommonWell network.

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