Five healthcare organizations in the Pacific Northwest have joined the CommonWell Health Alliance, a non-profit trade association geared toward promoting interoperability in healthcare.
Each of the new CommonWell Health Alliance members utilizes Cerner's EHR. The new members include:
• EvergreenHealth (Kirkland, Wash.)
• Mason General Hospital & Family of Clinics (Shelton, Wash.)
• Seattle Cancer Care Alliance
• Tuality Healthcare (Portland, Ore.)
• Virginia Mason Medical Center (Seattle)
CommonWell aims to address patient identification and linking; patient access, privacy and consent management; record location and retrieval; and trusted data access.