Federal News Network August 18, 2022
Tom Temin

Federal agencies’ electronic medical records are about to get a lot more interoperable with private sector health providers. Agencies like the Defense Department and the Department of Veterans Affairs are already members of eHealth Exchange, the country’s biggest health information exchange network. But they’ve now reached legal agreements that will let them start using a much broader health interoperability framework. That’ll add another 20 networks to the federal interoperability picture. Alan Swenson is executive director of Carequality, the nonprofit that runs the framework. He talked with Federal News Network’s Deputy Editor Jared Serbu on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

Interview transcript:

Jared Serbu: So folks actually know what we’re talking about here. Can you give us just a...

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Topics: EMR / EHR, Health IT, Health System / Hospital, HIE (Interoperability), Interview / Q&A, Provider, Technology, Trends, VA / DoD
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