Healthcare Informatics April 4, 2018
Rajiv Leventhal

Back in January, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) released its draft Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA)—a plan to jolt the sluggish pace of progress on interoperability between providers.

Soon after the plan’s release, various associations took advantage of the 45-day public comment window to voice their concerns and suggestions with TEFCA, most notably having to do with its timeline, lack of details, and how it will be aligned with other 21st Century Cures Act provisions. While it remains to be seen how ONC will work this stakeholder feedback into future iterations of TEFCA, one health IT professional, Niam Yaraghi, Ph.D., a nonresident fellow in the Brookings Institution’s Center for Technology Innovation and an...

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Topics: ASTP/ONC, Cures Act, EMR / EHR, Govt Agencies, HIE (Interoperability), Technology
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