Open Secret: The Threat to Interoperability
HealthIT Answers April 12, 2023
By Jim Tate, EMR Advocate
Twitter: @jimtate, eMail: jimtate@emradvocate.com
Host of The Tate Chronicles – #TateDispatches
The path to interoperability of healthcare data is proving to be a long and winding road. “The right data, at the right place, at the right time” has become the mantra. The emergence of TEFCA (Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement) is the most recent and far-reaching effort to achieve cross platform access to healthcare data.
Six years in the making, TEFCA is being born with the greatest of hope and anticipation. Yet, underneath all the fireworks and hoopla a threat exists, and the shame is that this threat is predictable and fixable.
In the past we have seen two great steps forward in the adoption...