Protecting Patient Privacy in the Era of TEFCA

Jay Nakashima, President, eHealth Exchange
A. John Blair, III, MD, CEO, MedAllies

Trust is essential when it comes to accessing health care data. That is why we have been so consistently laser-focused on trust and “getting it right” for the patient as we’ve launched a new government-sponsored health data exchange framework. Once fully scaled, the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement™ (TEFCA™) will make data sharing more ubiquitous without extra effort. But that doesn’t mean opening the gates without significant guardrails to protect patients’ privacy.