As a nation, we have made great strides in the deployment and use of health information technology. With the transition to
value based care delivery models, we must ensure that technology is interoperable to enable better care delivery, better health, and greater efficiency of care delivery.
At McKesson, we have led the transition to data liquidity. We have done this as McKesson, through our
RelayHealth® Clinical business, which connects and aggregates clinical data to drive better patient engagement, better care through access to a shared record, and greater business efficiency. We have also accomplished this through broader industry efforts, such as the
Commonwell Health Alliance™ (Commonwell), which provides a nationwide service enabling patient matching and linking, consent and authorization, and data access built into the health information technology that providers of care use on a daily basis.
We are proud to announce
HL7 Launches Joint Argonaut Project to Advance FHIR with our support and sponsorship for the HL7 Argonauts project, which will accelerate the development and use of HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources or FHIR. In our work as service provider for Commonwell, we were early adopters of FHIR. This standard promises better, more flexible and granular access to health data and increased modularity with a modern technology approach, allowing new kinds of interoperability. As real-world examples, imagine a care management app getting the most recent set of patient data and updating clinical quality measures and the plan of care in real time, or using our
InterQual® content to provide decision support on setting of care.
Through our support, HL7 will be able to devote the best and brightest, in partnership with us and other health information technology vendors and providers, to speed the transition to this new world.
This is truly a new day of industry led interoperability, and we are proud to be in the vanguard to enable the delivery of better health.