Healtheway Announces Appointment of Carequality Leadership
Leadership Committees Include Representation From Providers, Pharmacies, Long-Term and Post-Acute Care, Consumers, Government, Standards Development Organizations and Vendors
(firmenpresse) - MCLEAN, VA -- (Marketwired) -- 11/03/14 -- , a non-profit, public-private collaborative focused on advancing the implementation of interoperable health information exchange, today announced the appointment of the Steering Committee, Advisory Council and two working groups. The governance bodies and work groups bring together broad industry and government representation to focus on solving real-world health IT interoperability implementation issues.
The Carequality founding members launched Carequality in the spring of 2014 under the management of Healtheway. Carequality was formed with an ambitious goal: to tie together the many valuable health information exchange activities occurring throughout the country, and solve the final mile of interoperability between them. The ultimate mission is to create a system much like the ATM network in banking, where healthcare organizations will be able to share information securely over the Internet, regardless of the specific technology platform or network they use.
During the first six months of operation, Carequality members worked together to codify a solid governance process and attract a strong stakeholder base. That formative work led to the appointments announced today, and by bringing together experienced individuals from across industry and government, Carequality is setting the foundation for rapid advancements in operationalizing nationwide, interoperable health information exchange.
"Because we''re hoping to accomplish something on a massive, national scale, we knew we needed broad participation from government and industry," said Mariann Yeager, Healtheway CEO. "In selecting Carequality''s steering committee and advisory council, there was careful consideration to include large and small organizations representing healthcare providers, pharmacies, long-term and post-acute care, consumers, government, standards development organizations and vendors. Broad representation is essential to effectively manage the needs of all impacted by health IT in the United States."
The committee leadership announced today illustrates not only that Carequality has been successfully able to pull together the right group of organizations to solve the interoperability issue, but also that these organizations see a common need and are willing to work together in order to solve this challenge.
The Steering Committee, which met for the first time in June, is responsible for the Carequality strategy as well as the development and oversight of a fair, equitable and practical process for developing and maintaining an interoperability framework. The Advisory Council serves as the broad stakeholder representative group to inform Carequality''s work, while the workgroups will focus on solving specific interoperability challenges related to a set of principles for trust and the ability to query for health information. The Advisory Council and two working groups began meeting within the last month.
According to its charter, the Trust Framework Work Group will create a set of policy principles to establish trust between networks in order to enable the electronic exchange of health information. The Query Work Group will develop a requirements artifact that outlines business, technical, testing and policy requirements to enable simple query of documents between and among networks. Carequality will initially focus on expanding how existing networks are able to request and receive health information (often referred to as query).
Steering Committee Members
American Medical Association, Dr. Michael Hodgkins (chair)
Surescripts, Kathy Lewis (co-chair)
America''s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), Thomas Myers
Carolinas HealthCare System, Keith McNeice
Epic, Dave Cassel
Healthwise, Leslie Kelly Hall
Kaiser Permanente/Care Connectivity Consortium (CCC), Kevin Isbell
Kindred Healthcare, Larry Wolf
New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC), Anuj Desai
Siemens Corporation, Hans Buitendijk
Social Security Administration, Kitt Winter
SunCoast RHIO, Lou Galterio
Walgreens, Venk Reddy
Advisory Council Members
Stanford Hospital & Clinics, Dr. Matthew Eisenberg (co-chair)
Kansas Health Information Network (KHIN), Dr. Laura McCrary (co-chair)
American Medical Association, Matt Reid
CCHIT, Alisa Ray
Center for Medical Interoperability, Aaron Goldmuntz
Centerstone Research Institute, Christina Van Regenmorter
CGI Federal, Dr. John Loonsk
Deloitte, Erik Pupo
Department of Defense, Dr. Barclay Butler
Department of Veterans Affairs, Elaine Hunolt
ECRI, Ronni Solomon
Epic, Peter DeVault
Fairfax Pediatrics Associates, Dr. Sandy Chung
Geisinger Health System, Andy Kling
HL7, Dr. Charles (Chuck) Jaffe
IBM, Lorraine Fernandes
IHE International, Dr. David Mendelson
Medicity, Brian Ahier
National Association for Home Care and Hospice, Richard Brennan
Netsmart, A.J. Peterson
OCHIN, Paul Matthews
Regenstrief Institute, Shaun Grannis
St. Luke''s Health System, Dr. Marc Chasin
Surescripts, Keith Willard
Walgreens, Renee Smith
Health plan representation is still being finalized at this time.
Trust Framework Work Group Members
St. Luke''s Health System, Dr. Marc Chasin (chair)
Allina, Linda Goettler
CommonWell Health Alliance, Bob Robke
Epic, Rob Klootwyk
HealthBridge, Claudia Allen
Informatics Corporation of America (ICA), Tim Dunnington
Intermountain Healthcare, Dr. Sid Thornton
Medicity, Brian Ahier
Social Security Administration (SSA), Martin Prahl
Surescripts, Sara Juster
Texas Health Services Authority, Tony Gilman
Work group facilitators will be Steve Gravely and Erin Whaley of Troutman Sanders.
Query Work Group Members
Siemens Corporation, Hans Buitendjik (co-chair)
Kaiser Permanente, Seth Selkow (co-chair)
Dignity Health, Sean Turner
Epic, Justin Stauffer
ManTech, Adam Rabinowitz
Mirth Corporation, David Schramm
Ready Computing, Tone Southerland
Surescripts, Tara Dragert
Social Security Administration (SSA), Martin Prahl
Subject Matter Experts
AEGIS, Joe Lamy
CommonWell Health Alliance, Bob Robke
CommonWell Health Alliance, Paul Clip
Healtheway, Eric Heflin
ICSA Labs, David Tao
Interoperability Domain Expert, John Donnelly
"As a founding member of Carequality, the AMA looks forward to working with other members as we continue to pursue electronic health information exchange that will help physicians coordinate care and improve patient health outcomes. The AMA has long advocated for cost-effective, secure information exchange solutions that are both patient and physician friendly."
"Carequality has attracted a broad and representative group of industry leaders to drive its mission of accelerating the exchange of clinical information, enabling clinicians to provide informed, effective and high quality patient care."
"Siemens Healthcare is pleased to be one of the founding members of Carequality and help our industry take practical steps further enabling access to a patient''s health record securely by the right people at the right time to the right information when patient data is maintained across different provider organizations."
"It''s great to see such a broad coalition from across the healthcare industry working toward universal interoperability in a transparent way, fostering cooperation that ultimately should help to lower the cost of healthcare."
Carequality is a public-private collaborative that facilitates agreement among diverse stakeholders to develop and maintain a common interoperability framework enabling seamless exchange between and among networks. Carequality will bring together a diverse group of representatives from the private sector and government to come to collective agreement on how to enable data to flow seamlessly between and among networks and providers, much like the banking industry did for ATM / ACH transactions. For more information, visit and follow us at .
Healtheway is a non-profit organization chartered to advance secure, interoperable nationwide health information exchange (HIE). Healtheway currently supports two initiatives: the eHealth Exchange, a rapidly growing community of exchange partners who share information under a common trust framework and a common set of rules; and Carequality, a public-private collaborative effort to build consensus among existing health IT data exchange programs regarding technical specifications and best practices (similar to when the banking industry created a nationwide ATM network). Healtheway leads in cross-industry collaboration to develop implementation strategies that enable secure, interoperable nationwide exchange of health information. For more information about Healtheway, the eHealth Exchange and Carequality, visit .
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