42. CommonWell Health Alliance, Powered by ELLKAY

It’s time to get connected! CommonWell Health Alliance has selected ELLKAY as its Technical Service Provider: CommonWell Health Alliance — powered by ELLKAY. ELLKAY will support health data exchange nationwide to 200 million+ patients across its network of over 34,000 provider organizations. In today’s episode, host Sandy Vance chats with Josh Evenson the VP of Software Engineering at ELLKAY, and Liz Buckle, the director of product at CommonWell Health Alliance about the changes that will be happening and what that means for the members at CommonWell. Learn more about CommonWell on their website. Go to the Vive website to get more information about the upcoming Vive event which takes place in LA on February 25 - 28, 2024. In this episode, they talk about: How ELLKAY will enable CommonWell Health Alliance’s interoperability framework What the QHIN model will do for CommonWell New product features in the ELLKAY platform Powering manual patient matching The benefits of this partnership and what ELLKAY brings to the table The impact on members and the onboarding process A timeline of the changes and testing About our Guests: Josh Evensen is a software engineer & architect with over a decade of experience in healthcare interoperability. Josh has played an integral part in leading the ELLKAY team through the evaluation, development and implementation of the CommonWell 2.0 platform, working closely along the CommonWell Health Alliance.  Liz Buckle, MBA, is the Director of Product at CommonWell Health Alliance, responsible for overseeing the execution of the Alliance’s roadmap. Liz was initially involved with CommonWell while at Greenway, which is one of the founding members of the Alliance. Through her work at Greenway, Liz was the P&L owner for all interoperability solutions including overseeing the development and integration of CommonWell services into the Intergy platform. Liz has been in health IT and interoperability for 10 years.