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Continua Health Alliance Membership

If your company is already a member of Continua Health Alliance, you can sign up for a username and password today. This will grant you access to Members Only areas of the site, including online working groups and e-mail lists.


Benefits of membership

Contributor Member Benefits
  • Right to use Continua technical guidelines and use cases.  This includes access to pre-publication drafts of the design guidelines and internal documents through the Working Groups as well as the opportunity to review and comment on new design guidelines prior to their adoption.
  • Right to participate (non-voting) in Continua Working Groups to help create and influence the use cases, technical guidelines, marketing materials, lobbying efforts, and all other Continua work products
  • Invitation to attend and participate in Continua member-only quarterly Summits and Town Hall meetings as well as weekly teleconferences for the various Working Groups.
  • Right to use the Continua Test and Certification Program to qualify products and services and display the Continua certification mark.
  • New Right to participate in Continua Plugfests free of charge during 2008 for cross vendor interoperability testing prior to certification.
  • New Ability to utilize Vendor Assisted Source Code.
  • New Option to allow Continua to place company executives in industry speaking events.
  • New Right to demo certified products at Continua Summit opening sessions, tradeshow booths, other Continua events and Continua’s public newsletter.
  • New Free Continua marketing kits: signs, brochures, etc.
  • New Right to use Certified Logo Guidelines for print and digital reproduction upon completion of successful certification.
  • New Ability to participate in Continua’s RFP MatchMaker Program to find/list RFPs and pilot programs to test interoperability.
Promoter Member Only Benefits
  • All Contributor Member benefits.
  • Voting rights in all Continua Working Groups.  Including the selection of use cases, standards, industry technologies, and other key Working Group decisions
  • Ability to hold leadership positions within the Working Groups.
  • Right to be elected to the Board of Directors.
  • Right to use Continua marketing material internally and externally.
  • Free and open access to use of the Reimbursement Study Cataloging Report.
  • Opportunity to participate in Continua sponsored trade show exhibit kiosks and demonstrations. 
  • New Free test and certification for first 20 Promoter certified products in 2008 (no more than 4 products per company).
  • New Access to industry report on reimbursement business models and barriers.
  • New Access to industry research reports.
  • New Access to free educational sessions at Member Summits.
NEW Liaison Membership Category
Continua has found that our membership classes that may not fully accommodate all of the organizations that contribute to the personal tele-health eco-system. In order to increase the participation and provide a forum for information sharing, the Board of Directors has approved the creation of a new liaison category. If your organization is interested in participating as a liaison, please contact Continua Administration.

Join the Continua Health Alliance

Membership gives you the opportunity to contribute to the advancement of the Continua vision as well as participate in Continua members only events. 

How to Join

  1. Download and review the following Membership documents:
  3. For Promoter Membership, contact Continua Health Alliance for additional requirements and information.
  4. Print and fill out the Participation Agreement.
  5. Return the agreement along with the annual fee to the address below:

Continua Health Alliance
c/o VTM, Inc.
3855 SW 153rd Drive
Beaverton, Oregon 97006
USA
Phone: +1 503.619.0867
Fax: +1 503.644.6708
Email: Admin@ContinuaAlliance.org

Upon the receipt of both your Participation Agreement and annual fee payment, your company membership will be activated and you will be given access to the Members Only area of the Continua Web site.

Costs of Membership

  • Annual membership fees
    • Promoter: $35,000
    • Contributor: $5,000
    • Liaison: $5,000
If you have questions about membership with Continua Health Alliance, please contact Continua Health Alliance.