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The latest on interoperability rules
The federal government has taken another step toward making transferring medical data between patients, providers, apps, insurers and researchers easier, though we might not see a tectonic shift immediately It’s been about a year since the federal government’s health IT office published TEFCA, a framework standardizing the process for exchanging health data. And this week the Health and Human Services Department picked a handful of organizations — the CommonWell Health Alliance, eHealth Exchange, Epic TEFCA Interoperability Services, Health Gorilla, Kno2, and KONZA — to be the first to implement that framework. These “Qualified Health Information Networks,” or QHINs, are committing to joining live in one year.
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