Industry Perspectives On Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) One Year Post-Go-Live
Search Health IT, Monday, January 13th, 2025
TEFCA facilitated the exchange of 7.8 million documents in its first year, but additional efforts are needed to expand use cases across public health and payer-provider exchange.
As the country looks toward health data interoperability, TEFCA could be the missing piece for national health information exchange.
TEFCA aims to facilitate nationwide interoperability for a variety of use cases through a network of networks approach. Born from the 21st Century Cures Act, the framework became operational in December 2023 with the HHS designation of five initial qualified health information networks (QHINs).
Just over a year since it went live, TEFCA has added two additional QHINs and supported the exchange of 7.8 million documents, according to The Sequoia Project, TEFCA's recognized coordinating entity.