CommonWell Health Alliance Reaches Network Population Milestone
- After surpassing a network population of 200 million, the CommonWell Health Alliance is now sharing electronic health information for a large portion of the US population-based Census projections. Working to implement universal access to health data across the nation, the CommonWell Health Alliance is a nonprofit trade association of healthcare and...
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