Fierce Health Payers September 3, 2019
Heather Landi

In a major step toward advancing its strategy for nationwide data sharing, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) awarded The Sequoia Project a cooperative agreement to serve as the recognized coordinating entity (RCE) for the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA).

As the coordinating entity, The Sequoia Project—a nonprofit that advocates for nationwide health information exchange—will be responsible for developing, updating, implementing and maintaining the common agreement component of TEFCA.

The common agreement will create the baseline technical and legal requirements for health information networks to share electronic health information and is part of the 21st Century Cures Act, according to ONC.

The program will be funded for fiscal 2019 at $900,000.

ONC released the...

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Topics: ASTP/ONC, Cures Act, EMR / EHR, Govt Agencies, Health IT, Health System / Hospital, HIE (Interoperability), Insurance, Physician, Provider, Technology
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