Healthcare DIVE March 15, 2022
Rebecca Pifer

Healthcare Dive caught up with ONC’s main partner in creating a nationwide framework for data exchange at HIMSS22

Free, unfettered data sharing remains a major pain point in the healthcare industry, something that was highlighted in the early months of the COVID-19 response. So hospitals and other health organizations cheered when the Biden administration in January released a much-anticipated governance framework for nationwide health information exchange.

That framework, the Trusted Exchange Framework and the Common Agreement (TEFCA), is meant to create legal and technical requirements to enable secure information sharing across different entities.

Soon, health information networks, exchanges and other companies will be able to apply to become qualified health information networks (QHINs), or groupings of organizations that agree to...

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