Version 2.0 of TEFCA Common Agreement Requires FHIR Support
Healthcare Innovation April 22, 2024
ONC also publishes the Participant and Subparticipant Terms of Participation for TEFCA
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) has released Version 2.0 of the Common Agreement defining how different health information networks and their users securely share clinical information with each other. The most significant update is that Version 2.0 requires support for FHIR application programming interface (API) exchange.
The Common Agreement defines the baseline legal and technical requirements for secure information sharing on a nationwide scale. The Common Agreement also establishes the infrastructure model and governing approach to enable users in different health information networks (HINs) to securely share information with each other—all under commonly agreed-to expectations and regardless of which network they happen to...