Politico January 13, 2025
Ruth Reader and Erin Schumaker

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Just over a year ago, the Department of Health and Human Services launched an information highway to instantly deliver patient data across health systems and give doctors more complete patient health histories.

Since then, a growing list of health systems, payers and others have connected to the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement, known as TEFCA.

The electronic health records company Epic Systems, which covers 89 percent of acute care hospitals in the U.S., has connected more than 500 health systems to the network and plans to connect all its customers by the end of 2025.

Epic has one of seven Qualified Health Information Networks, or QHINs, hooking doctors and others into the network. The Indian Health Service has...

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