What You Need to Know About the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement

HealthDataAnswers June 25, 2019
Kory Mertz, Director of Policy, Audacious Inquiry

What’s a TEFCA?

We are only six months into 2019 but it has already been an action-packed year from a federal health IT policy perspective! The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) both released significant proposed rules that will reshape the health IT landscape. CMS seeks to increase patients’ access to their health information from payers by requiring certain payers to adopt FHIR-based open APIs and they are proposing to require hospitals to share alerts about inpatient admissions, discharges, and transfers. ONC’s rule is focused on implementing many of the key provisions of the 21st Century Cures Act (Cures Act), including defining information blocking and the requirements of...

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