eClinicalWorks – Liberation of Data

Tushar Malhotra, Director for Interoperability Strategy and Business Development at eClinicalWorks discusses how they help providers improve interoperability, have greater access to live data, the Carequality and CommonWell Health Alliance networks, and securely exchange over 50 million records per month with other practices and hospitals.  He talks about why the liberation of data is essential, and the strategies to meet this need as the next step for the U.S. healthcare system. 

Tushar Malhotra, Director for Interoperability Strategy and Business Development at eClinicalWorks has more than a decade of experience in Healthcare IT industry and is responsible for defining solutions and services for integrating eClinicalWorks EMR with disparate systems and applications. In his current role, Tushar is overseeing the deployment of Commonwell Health Alliance, Carequality Interoperability Framework and FHIR suite of products for eClinicalWorks customers and works on defining the interoperability roadmap with respect to these nationwide initiatives to improve data exchange between patients, providers and third party applications. He serves on the Commonwell Board and Steering committees for Carequality and Argonaut project. Tushar has a Master’s Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Massachusetts Amherst and Masters in Business Administration from Bentley University.