Healthcare IT News May 29, 2020
The Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement, designed to ensure an individual’s electronic health information is available when they need it, depends on participation from stakeholders across the healthcare ecosystem.
Since the passage of the 21st Century Cures Act in 2016, federal agencies have been working to implement systems that allow health information networks to exchange information around the country.
“There’s a large recognition of the success we’ve had in computerizing our nation’s healthcare system, but also a recognition that those computers just do not talk to each other,” said John Rancourt, director of the Interoperability Division at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, in a recent HIMSS20 Digital presentation.
ONC drew on language in the...
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