The Most Important Interoperability Story of 2016

You may have missed or not understood the implications ofthis press release. Here ' s a guest post from Micky Tripathi, the CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative that explains everything you need to know:" This summary provides some additional information on the recently announced interoperability agreement between CommonWell and The Sequoia Project (Carequality).  For full disclosure, I am on the Board of Directors of The Sequoia Project, a contractor to CommonWell, and participated in the discussions leading to the agreement.  The description below does not necessarily reflect the views of either of these organizations or any of the named vendors.  It is based on my understanding and analysis of the implications, does not reveal any confidential information, and has not been pre-vetted by either CommonWell or The Sequoia Project or any EHR vendor.  It was originally developed in response to questions from provider organizations whom I work with and who, after reading it, felt that it would be valuable to others.Current situation:CommonWell is anetwork that provides a record locator service (RLS) and query/retrieve capability among participating vendors/providers.  * Exchange concept.  The network architecture is patient-centric in the sense that one searches for a patient first, and then executes a query to retrieve a CCDA record from any of the returned locations that are connected and for which the patient has authoriz...
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