Fierce Healthcare August 26, 2024
Heather Landi

Electronic health records giant Epic recently announced plans to transition its customers to a new government-backed data exchange by the end of next year.

“By the end of 2024, our goal is that the full Epic community will have committed to transition to TEFCA with plans to be live by the end of 2025,” the EHR vendor wrote in an Aug. 16 news release.

The Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) is a nationwide network to exchange patient that was mandated by the 21st Century Cures Act back in 2016. TEFCA was designed to create an infrastructure to enable data sharing between health information networks.

On the same day, Carequality, an interoperability network that Epic belongs to, also...

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