HealthIT Answers July 15, 2021
By Micky Tripathi, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, ONC and
Mariann Yeager, CEO, The Sequoia Project (the TEFCA Recognized Coordinating Entity)
We are pleased to announce the timeline for the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA). The 21st Century Cures Act, signed by President Obama in 2016, calls on ONC to “develop or support a trusted exchange framework, including a common agreement among health information networks nationally.”
In August 2019, ONC awarded a cooperative agreement to The Sequoia Project to serve as the Recognized Coordinating Entity (RCE) to administer a new nationwide network based on the Common Agreement. Since then, ONC and the RCE have worked together to gather industry-wide stakeholder input to draft and refine the approach to...
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