After TEFCA’s many fits and starts, ONC head Micky Tripathi called its finalization a “milestone” marking the beginning of a “new era of electronic health information exchange in the U.S.”
The Biden administration released a much-anticipated governance framework for nationwide health information exchange on Tuesday. Establishing rules of the road for clinical data exchange is the next step in Washington’s continuing bid to promote interoperability as the pandemic continues to highlight the need for health information networks stretching across the country.
That framework, the Trusted Exchange Framework and the Common Agreement (TEFCA), is aimed at creating baseline legal and technical requirements to enable secure nationwide information sharing across disparate healthcare entities.
