MedCity News December 18, 2023
Katie Adams

Last week, the ONC announced that TEFCA had finally gone live. This followed years of the ONC heralding the project’s potential to boost interoperability and increase patients’ access to their healthcare data. However, former ONC Chief Don Rucker believes that TEFCA is built on an archaic data exchange protocol that will prevent the initiative from being useful.

Last week, the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) finally went live.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has been working to launch TEFCA for the better half of a decade, heralding the project as something that will boost interoperability and increase patients’ access to their healthcare data. However, a former ONC chief thinks TEFCA is...

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Topics: ASTP/ONC, EMR / EHR, Govt Agencies, Health IT, HIE (Interoperability), Provider, Technology
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