Health Care Leaders Weigh-In On The Role of TEFCA
The Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) will play a critical role in how organizations across the nation can exchange data seamlessly, further advancing interoperability with a common governance and policy floor. In addition to other perspectives from health care leaders on how TEFCA can support information sharing between diverse entities and help build trust and security, C4BH Executive Director Timi Leslie believes that: “By leveraging TEFCA’s standards and focus on clinical health information, other state policies and frameworks, such as California’s Data Exchange Framework, can build upon secure and confident data sharing among providers and entities to meet local priorities.” (Healthcare IT Today, 8/30)
Epic and Carequality To Align With TEFCA
Epic, a large electronic health record (EHR) software vendor, and Carequality, a national interoperability framework that Epic connects to, have announced their commitment to transition to TEFCA. Experts believe these recent developments represent a powerful shift for the federally-supported framework and predict it will drive TEFCA adoption among the health care industry. (Fierce Healthcare, 8/26)
New HIMSS White Paper Outlines National Frameworks and Networks
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) developed a new white paper outlining the national interoperability frameworks and networks to present the history of interoperability, the key pillars of each intermediary, and provide clarity to how TEFCA can be leveraged to accomplish a connected health system nationwide. (HIMSS, 8/2)
AI Patient Communications in Health Care Call For Transparency and Personalization
As physicians adopt artificial intelligence (AI) technologies into their existing workflows to handle tasks like data entry and patient communications, they are able to focus more on patient interaction. A recent HIMSS AI in Healthcare Forum discussed the importance of disclosing AI use while using it as a tool to provide personalized experiences, such as in relaying patient concerns to clinicians or giving patients the level of information that they’re interested in depending on situational context. (Healthcare IT News, 9/6)
