Healthcare DIVE January 21, 2022
The government can’t require anyone to adopt TEFCA, raising concerns it won’t see enough voluntary uptake to create the coast-to-coast interoperability network envisaged by ONC.
The health IT industry cheered on Tuesday when the Biden administration released a final draft of a framework for nationwide data exchange after an extended stint in regulatory purgatory, with the goal of creating a simple and standard connectivity infrastructure for providers, plans, patients and public health agencies in the U.S.
But the future of that road map, called the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement, hinges largely around adoption.
TEFCA is entirely voluntary, and will succeed or fail wholly depending on industry buy-in — historically, not a good prospect for a piece of health...
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