Healthcare DIVE August 31, 2023
The nonprofit will receive $2 million in funding from the government in the first year of its new five-year contract for managing the interoperability network.
Dive Brief:
- The Biden administration has renewed its contract with the Sequoia Project, allowing the nonprofit to continue overseeing the country’s nascent network for nationwide healthcare interoperability over the next five years.
- With the new contract, the Sequoia Project will stay on as recognized coordinating entity, or RCE, for the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement, a key patient health data-sharing initiative that’s slated to go live later this year.
- The Sequoia Project has received almost $3 million in government funding since it began serving as RCE in 2019. The nonprofit will receive $2...