Healthcare DIVE June 11, 2019
Dive Brief:
- An advisory committee thinks the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT should consider incentives for health information networks to adopt the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement, a blueprint for fostering interoperability in healthcare.
- At its Tuesday meeting, the TEFCA task force — a subset of the Health IT Advisory Committee — debated multiple incentives, including requiring participation in TEFCA for participation in other federal programs like Medicare, Medicaid or Veteran Community Care, and participation in TEFCA affecting whether an actor is found to be an information blocker.
- “Maybe we don’t want to go into that political space, but that’s what it could come to for TEFCA to work,” task force co-chair John Kansky said. ...
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