HealthIT Answers November 12, 2023
In January 2022, ONC and The Sequoia Project, serving as ONC’s Recognized Coordinating Entity® (RCE) organization, released the Trusted Exchange Framework and Version 1 of the Common Agreement. One year later, six organizations became candidate Qualified Health Information Networks (QHINsSM) and committed to complete “onboarding” and “go live” by the end of 2023 – we are still on target!
In the ensuing months even more organizations have entered the process to become a QHIN, and the Common Agreement has recently been updated to Version 1.1 in preparation for data sharing through the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCASM). The updated Common Agreement includes specific technical and clarifying changes and will be accompanied in short order by updates to the...