FHIR Roadmap for TEFCA Exchange V.2: FHIR APIs are on their Way into TEFCA Exchange

HealthIT.gov January 3, 2024
Chris Muir and Alan Swenson

On December 11, 2023, ONC and the TEFCA Recognized Coordinating Entity® (RCE^TM), The Sequoia Project, released the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR)® Roadmap for TEFCA^SM Exchange V.2. This version updates the previous roadmap and continues the momentum already established by providing more details and guidance for the future of FHIR in TEFCA.

The plan for the Trusted Exchange Framework Common Agreement^SM (TEFCA) always included Health Level 7 (HL7)® FHIR application programing interface (API) exchange, and now it is coming faster than you may have thought!

In January 2022, ONC and the TEFCA RCE jointly released the FHIR Roadmap for TEFCA Exchange (Roadmap) along with the Common Agreement and the QHIN Technical Framework (QTF) Version 1. The Roadmap indicated that TEFCA...