New CommonWell Chief Speaks Out: Interoperability Progress, Epic, and More

Jitin Asnaani, the new executive director of the CommonWell Health Alliance, speaks exclusively to Healthcare Informatics in this Q&A. He touches on the group’s back-and-forth with Epic, its progress in developing a patient record locator, and other pertinent topics.

Two years can fly by fast.

CommonWell Health Alliance, an industry trade group made up of many of the largest electronic health record (EHR) systems vendors, was born at HIMSS 2013 in New Orleans. As HIMSS 2015 approaches, this year in Chicago, the group, like any two year old, can signify that it’s growing.