Moving our healthcare system into the digital age, better outcomes, controlling and reducing costs, and patient access to their health data. Included updates on TEFCA, HIE networks, job openings and vendor contracts.
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Supporting the adoption of health IT and the promotion of nationwide health information exchange to improve health care, here is what is happening at the ONC, including an EHI Sharing Workshop, new funding announcement for the 2022 LEAP in Health IT NOFO, & GAO is seeking nominations for HITAC.
Moving our healthcare system into the digital age, better outcomes, controlling and reducing costs, and patient access to their health data. Included updates on TEFCA, HIE networks, job openings and vendor contracts.
Supporting the adoption of health IT and the promotion of nationwide health information exchange to improve health care, here is what is happening at the ONC, including a new webinar series that brings together key stakeholders to share lessons learned, promising practices, and challenges related to exchanging SDOH data, new blog posts on improving ePAs, information blocking & more!
By Elise Sweeney Anthony, Liz Palena Hall, & Mariann Yeager – On January 18, the ONC and the TEFCA Recognized Coordinating Entity, The Sequoia Project, released the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement. The next key step for TEFCA is the release of resources to advance its operationalization, such as standard operating procedures.
Moving our healthcare system into the digital age, better outcomes, controlling and reducing costs, and patient access to their health data. With the release of TEFCA, health information exchange organizations are now awaiting QHIN applications.
The Sequoia Project, a non-profit and trusted advocate for nationwide health information exchange, celebrated its 10-year anniversary recently. Founded April 23, 2012, it has spent the last decade incubating bold new ideas and initiatives to tackle the pressing challenges facing the health IT community on a national level.
Supporting the adoption of health IT and the promotion of nationwide health information exchange to improve health care, here is what is happening at the ONC, including the 2022 ONC Annual Meeting recordings are now On-Demand, the feedback period for the USCDI v3 is open until April 30th, & the SVAP comment period closes on May 1st.
While there are regional and national interoperability hubs like CommonWell working at scale across the country, the ONC’s recent TEFCA aims at pushing the health IT industry to certify these hubs as highly scalable, highly secure utility grade systems and connect them via standardized exchange practices and patient search capabilities.