Inside Digital Health June 26, 2019
Samara Rosenfeld

The American Hospital Association (AHA) is concerned that the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s (ONC) approach to Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) could disrupt innovation efforts currently underway, which grew since the first draft, according to the organization’s comments on the second draft of the document.

AHA represents nearly 5,000 member hospitals, health systems and healthcare organizations, including more than 270,000 affiliated physicians, 2 million nurses and caregivers and 43,000 individual members.

Along with comments on TEFCA, the organization pushed back on the proposed interoperability rule released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid. According to a requirement of the rule, in order to participate with Medicare, hospitals must electronically coordinate post-discharge care. AHA argued...

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