Healthcare Innovation June 20, 2019
Rajiv Leventhal

Industry leaders ponder how TEFCA will dovetail with established trust frameworks, and if it could actually slow down interoperability progress

Responding to the federal government’s second draft of its Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) for connecting health information networks, industry stakeholders are showing concern over various elements of the framework.
In April, after receiving more than 200 comments on the first draft of TEFCA—a federally-constructed plan to jolt interoperability by creating a unified data exchange infrastructure for healthcare stakeholders—the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released the long-awaited second draft and a four-year funding announcement for a nonprofit Recognized Coordinating Entity (RCE) to manage the...

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