By Hannah Nelson
February 12, 2024 – The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), has designated two additional organizations as Qualified Health Information…
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The Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) keeps releasing new rules to address the urgent need for data exchange. The Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) was followed recently by the Health Data,…
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John Blair, MD, CEO of MedAlllies
Like tales of Bigfoot and UFO sightings, talk of Qualified Health Information Networks (QHINs) has been met around the health industry with some skepticism, with some in health IT…
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The Sequoia Project, the recognized coordinating entity of the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement, is seeking feedback on new versions of the Common Agreement, Qualified Health Information Networks Technical Framework, Participant/Subparticipant Terms of…
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Celebrate this important milestone where we will recognize the first designated Qualified Health Information Networks joining TEFCA. In Part 2, we’ll discuss how an operational TEFCA can change health care nationwide and celebrate the…
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We previously shared ONC’s big QHIN announcement which shared the names of five officially designated QHINs as part of TEFCA:
No doubt, the timing of this announcement was planned to coincide with the ONC Annual…
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In this video we talk with all the officially designated QHINs to get their reaction to their new designation. Plus, we were able to talk with the Recognized Coordinating Entity (RCE), The Sequoia Project,…
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Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives…
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It’s not a huge surprise that the week of the ONC Meeting, they would make a number of big announcements for those of us in health IT. The first was the announcement of the…
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Allen Abshire joined us to discuss the vital role of TEFCA and QHINs in advancing healthcare interoperability. Learn how Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) like his organization are facilitating seamless data exchange and discover the…
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