Carequality now connects more than half of providers through interoperability framework, and it’s growing

Healthcare IT News December 5, 2017
Bernie Monegain

While 2 million documents were exchanged for the first 12 months, nearly as many are exchanged monthly now.

Carequality, a nationwide interoperability framework that makes possible the exchange of healthcare data between and among networks, reports that more than 1,000 hospitals, 25,000 clinics, and 580,000 healthcare providers are connected.

The numbers represent more than 50 percent of all healthcare providers in the country.

[Also: Cerner, Epic shops begin electronic exchange of patient records]

Mariann Yeager, president of The Sequoia Project, which is the parent of Carequality, revealed the numbers during The Sequoia Project’s Annual Meeting, which is taking place this week.

“When we first kicked off planning efforts for Carequality in 2014, we knew it was going to be big,”...

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