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October 2023 Interoperability Monthly Update: TEFCA, QHINs, ONC's Latest News
It’s hard to believe, but we have reached the last quarter of the year. We hope that your 2023 interoperability focused projects are making excellent progress. In addition to making sure we are helping clients achieve their immediate goals, we are also closely monitoring events at a national level. The big one is that the TEFCA rollout continues to move ahead, with candidate QHINs busy with QHIN onboarding testing.
If you haven’t had a chance to learn about how TEFCA and QHINs are changing the way data is shared across the country, now is a good time to catch up.
Let’s take a quick look at where TEFCA stands right now and what you need to know moving into the future, including some Zen predictions about the potential impacts:
- TEFCA isn’t mandatory yet, but it’s gaining traction as a potential “safe harbor” for data sharing requirements.
- TEFCA will become the primary way that nationwide data exchange occurs for the mandated purposes of use (POU). The two most important POUs in the early days will be Treatment and Request (Patient request for their own data).
- Existing national networks such as eHealth Exchange (eHEX) and Commonwell Alliance will increasingly put their focus on their QHIN participants and use cases.
- QHIN Candidates that are EHR based (like Epic currently) will strongly encourage their clients to make TEFCA their preferred way of doing nationwide data exchange. Also – we expect that more EHRs will be in the next round of QHIN candidates.
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