CommonWell borrows from existing standards of interoperability to connect platforms, and will not create a patient ID.

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Dvorak says he doubts Epic will join CommonWell, preferring to support national standards.

FORBES: Epic Systems Says Alliance Between Electronic Health Records Vendors Caught It By Surprise

The CommonWell initiative is aiming for something better: not just allowing doctors to send and receive data, but to search for it.

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Earlier this morning, 5 of the larger HIT vendors announced a collaborative effort around data exchange called the commonwell Health Alliance.

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The indictment by Adrian Gropper, MD over on The Health Care Blog was also pretty forceful ( CommonWell Is a Shame and a Missed Opportunity).

FORBES: Behind the Curtain of Healthcare's New CommonWell Alliance

Today, five major providers of electronic medical records are banding together to form a new non-profit called the CommonWell Health Alliance with the aim of fixing that problem.

FORBES: Five Health IT Firms Band Together To Create A National System For Identifying Patients And Sharing Medical Records

Instead of waiting for possibly more government intervention to force vendors to open up their silos of patient information, they formed the CommonWell Health Alliance to do it themselves.

FORBES: An Enlightened Move By Vendors Of Electronic Health Records To Connect

In a bid to put a private sector stamp on the push for interoperability, a group of electronic health records vendors led by Cerner and McKesson formed the CommonWell Health Alliance yesterday.

FORBES: Epic Systems Says Alliance Between Electronic Health Records Vendors Caught It By Surprise