Carequality www.carequality.org just rolled out the “Carequality Interoperability Framework” currently available to health information exchange networks, vendors, payers, and others across the healthcare ecosystem.
Carequality is a public-private collaborative facilitating agreement among diverse stakeholders to develop and maintain a common interoperability framework enabling exchange between and among data sharing networks.
“We need secure health information exchange where a patient’s story travels with them to provide safe, efficient, engaged, high quality healthcare,” said Dr. Matthew Eisenberg Medical Informatics Director of Analytics and Innovation at Stanford Health Care and Co-Chair of the Carequality Advisory Council. “This can no longer be accomplished in just one health system, one region, or even one network, it must be available everywhere”.
“We know that interoperability is critical to coordinated care which improves the patient experience and patient outcomes,” said Dr. Michael Hodgkins, Vice President and Chief Medical Information Officer of the AMA and Chair of the Carequality Steering Committee. “The development and adoption of the Framework is key to enabling coordinated care for patients nationwide.”
The initial roll out of data sharing under the Framework was led by 12 organizations who played a key role in developing the entire Framework, but particularly the legal terms. The initial roll out focuses first on query-based exchange of clinical documents, but the Framework was developed to support an unlimited variety of use cases.
Now organizations that adopt the Framework will be able to establish data sharing partnerships more quickly and uniformly than ever before, by leveraging existing networks and business relationships.
Many physicians already are members of the HIE or have access to connectivity through a vendor or service provider. The Framework allows these existing operations to access one another with the potential to increase connectivity across healthcare, including provider organizations, payers, government agencies, and more.