athenahealth offers client base free CommonWell services
As part of its effort to advance patient-centered information exchange, today at HIMSS athenahealth announced it has made CommonWell services available to its entire client base of more than 62,000 healthcare providers nationwide.
Its cloud-based model allows athenahealth to enable instant access to CommonWell's interoperability services. In partnership with its clients, athenahealth will work to bring as many of the patients who are treated by its provider clients onto the CommonWell network.
"With 79 percent of physicians saying that the vast majority of patients they treat also receive care from caregivers outside their core network, it's critical for information to follow the patient," said Todd Rothenhaus, MD, chief medical officer and SVP of Network Knowledge at athenahealth, in a release. "Just as we partnered with our clients to succeed at Meaningful Use, achieving a 98 percent Stage 2 attestation rate when the industry is only at about 30 percent, we will work with our clients to achieve meaningful information exchange. We believe healthcare organizations that embrace patient-centered information exchange will be the most profitable in the future."
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