Healthcare IT News June 21, 2023
Dr. Don Rucker, now chief strategy officer with 1upHealth, weighs in on where TEFCA is headed and his fundamental concerns about veering away from the way the rest of industry computes.
In Part 1, Dr. Don Rucker, the former National Coordinator for Health IT from 2017-2021, framed the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement’s reliance on brokered protocols and page view document architecture as a costly impediment to modernizing healthcare computing. He also discussed the power of FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) and leveraging JavaScript Object Notation.
For example, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services already is using Bulk FHIR with APIs built on JSON for certain information sharing.
Here in Part 2 of this in-depth interview, Rucker discusses...
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