Fierce Healthcare June 18, 2019
Heather Landi

TEFCA was mandated by the 21st Century Cures Act to provide policies, procedures and technical standards necessary to exchange patient records and health information between providers, HIEs and federal agencies.

With the proposed Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA), the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) is attempting to provide a single “on-ramp” to nationwide data sharing.

While most industry groups support the goals of this initiative, the timeline for implementation is too aggressive, and the framework is still too broad and does not provide enough clarity as to how it will be rolled out, many organizations say.

ONC released the first draft of the TEFCA back in January 2018 as a framework designed...

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Topics: ASTP/ONC, CMS, Cures Act, EMR / EHR, Govt Agencies, Health IT, Health System / Hospital, HIE (Interoperability), Insurance, Physician, Primary care, Provider, Technology
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