Aprima Joins CommonWell Health Alliance

 

DALLASNov. 20, 2014-- Aprima Medical Software, Inc. announced today that the company has joined CommonWell Health Alliance as a Contributing Member. CommonWell Health Alliance is a collaborative effort focused on achieving interoperability to enable a seamless exchange of electronic health information.

CommonWell, a non-profit trade association, is dedicated to the vision that health data should be available regardless of where care occurs. Together, the members of the Alliance are using their diverse, collective experience across the care continuum to break down the barriers that have stood in the way of efficient data exchange. For example, the Alliance helps providers deliver a history of recent patient care encounters and, with appropriate authorization, access patient data across multiple providers and episodes of care.

Aprima brings significant experience and strengths to the Alliance. As one of the top five vendors physicians are switching to for their electronic health record (EHR) solution, Aprima provides EHR, Practice Management (PM) and Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) solutions to physician practices nationwide in an easy to use and cost effective way.

"We're pleased to join CommonWell Health Alliance's efforts to enable providers to seamlessly and more securely share patient information," said Aprima president and CEO Michael Nissenbaum. "Increasingly, physicians want to leverage information technology to more easily and cost-effectively treat their patients and manage their practice. Aprima is dedicated to easing the transition to this environment for healthcare providers."

About Aprima Medical Software, Inc.
Aprima provides innovative electronic health record, practice management and revenue cycle management solutions for medical practices. The Aprima EHR/PM is an integrated system built on a single database. Aprima uses a fast, flexible design that adapts automatically to a physician's workflow and sets the benchmark for ease-of-use, speed and flexibility. Aprima is one of the few companies with a 16-year track record of success, including Certification for Meaningful Use Stage 2 in 2013.  To learn more about the details of this and other certifications click here. Thousands of Aprima users are benefiting from improved quality of care, improved patient satisfaction, improved quality of life and an improved bottom line. Based in Carrollton, TX, Aprima performs all development, support and implementation from the U.S. To learn more about how Aprima can help your practice, please visit www.aprima.com, call us at 866-960-6890, option 7, or email us atinfo@aprima.com.

About CommonWell Health Alliance
CommonWell Health Alliance is a not-for-profit trade association of health IT companies working together to create universal access to health care data. The Alliance is open to all organizations that are committed to making patient's data available to providers regardless of where care occurs. Alliance members support the belief that provider access to this data must be built into health IT at a reasonable cost for use by a broad range of health care providers and the populations and people they serve. To learn more about CommonWell Health Alliance, please visit www.commonwellalliance.org.

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