Healthcare Innovation March 19, 2025
Kristen Valdes, CEO of b.well Connected Health, and CommonWell Health Alliance’s Paul Wilder discuss the ramifications of their HIMSS demonstration
At HIMSS 2025 in Las Vegas, b.well Connected Health drew attention for demonstrating end-to-end patient data retrieval via the TEFCA network, in partnership with CommonWell Health Alliance. Last week, b.well founder and CEO Kristen Valdes and Paul Wilder, CommonWell’s executive director, spoke with Healthcare Innovation about the implications of patients being able to access their own longitudinal health data easily and the next steps they envision.
In collaboration with CommonWell and athenahealth, b.well verified the patient’s identity through CLEAR. It securely transmitted verified demographics to CommonWell, a Qualified Health Information Network (QHIN) under TEFCA. It then retrieved comprehensive patient...