The Role of the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) in Facilitating Seamless Data Sharing Among Healthcare Entities

High-quality, reliable data is crucial to getting most things done in healthcare, especially for healthcare interoperability. However, having the data alone isn’t enough – we need to be able to share our data between healthcare entities. Without having the same data sets, how else are our organizations and different healthcare entities supposed to work together seamlessly? We’ve made some great strides in improving interoperability, in no small part due to the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA).

So let’s take a moment to check in and examine the current state of healthcare – how is interoperability in healthcare advancing and what role does TEFCA play in facilitating seamless data sharing among healthcare entities? We reached out to our brilliant Healthcare IT Today for their insights into this question, the following is what they had to share.

Liz Buckle, Director of Product at CommonWell Health Alliance
Interoperability is expanding in two significant ways. First, the number of healthcare organizations connecting to national networks and frameworks is steadily increasing, though many remain unconnected. Second, while there is growing interest in diversifying the types of exchanges permitted, scalability beyond Treatment exchange remains limited. TEFCA aims to address both challenges. The QHIN community is committed to helping all healthcare organizations achieve connectivity and advancing use cases such as Healthcare Operations, Public Health, and Individual Access Services. The foundation for success in both areas lies in the first word of TEFCA – Trust.

Jay Nakashima, President at eHealth Exchange
We continue to move closer to realizing the dream of complete interoperability, and TEFCA is a big part of that. With TEFCA, Designated QHINs are the dynamic force in the seamless sharing of health data among healthcare industry providers and organizations to improve patient outcomes. eHealth Exchange is proud to be one of the first Designated QHINs. Participating in TEFCA exchange offers significant benefits realized today such as fewer barriers to data access and targeted future ones, including expanded use cases for public health, and streamlined connectivity among providers, payers, health IT vendors, and patients. TEFCA represents the core values of eHealth Exchange, which most importantly focuses on nationwide interoperable and secure health data exchange to benefit patients whose care depends on it. We believe TEFCA will lead to additional exchange partners and eventually will support additional use cases beyond queries for treatment and individual access.

Etienne Boshoff, Managing Director at EHR Enhancify
Healthcare interoperability is advancing through the adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHRs), standardized APIs like FHIR, and emerging technologies such as blockchain. Policies like the 21st Century Cures Act and ONC/CMS rules enhance data access and prevent information blocking. TEFCA plays a crucial role in facilitating seamless data sharing by providing common principles, terms, and conditions for secure information exchange, promoting standardization, and ensuring reciprocity and accountability among healthcare entities.

Unfortunately, there are challenges in achieving standardized and secure data exchange. Fragmented systems are a major hurdle, as diverse EHR systems often lack compatibility, making seamless data sharing difficult. Data privacy and security concerns are paramount, given the sensitive nature of health information and the need to protect patient confidentiality while ensuring accessibility for healthcare providers. Technical variations also pose significant challenges; different standards and protocols across systems can impede interoperability and create inefficiencies. Cost constraints further complicate the landscape, as implementing and maintaining interoperable systems require substantial financial investment and resources.

These challenges can be effectively addressed through several strategies. Adopting standardized protocols like FHIR facilitates uniform data exchange and integration across different healthcare platforms, and implementing robust data security measures, such as advanced encryption, authentication, and access control mechanisms, ensures that data remains secure and patient privacy is maintained. Investing in interoperability infrastructure is essential to support the seamless exchange of data between systems, requiring both technological upgrades and financial commitments from healthcare organizations. Promoting collaborative efforts among stakeholders, including policymakers, healthcare providers, and technology vendors, fosters a cooperative environment where best practices and innovative solutions can be shared and implemented. In summary, while frameworks like TEFCA significantly advance healthcare interoperability, standardized protocols, robust security measures, and innovative technologies remain key to effective and secure data exchange.

John Blair, MD, CEO at MedAllies
Thanks to TEFCA, interoperability is advancing, increasing the reach for treatment and adding new use cases for healthcare stakeholders. TEFCA addresses certain interoperability obstacles by creating a glidepath for standards-based exchange, particularly for FHIR at a national scale. Navigating a balance between promoting data sharing and ensuring data privacy is critical, which is why stakeholders are now performing extensive and detailed analyses of treatment and privacy. We will continue to see the adoption of innovative technologies to enhance interoperability, such as Unified Data Platform (UDAP), which is being deployed to allow user registration, authentication, and authorization for FHIR-based exchange at a national scale.

Timi Leslie, Founder and President at BluePath Health and Connecting for Better Health
TEFCA provides a foundational standard for interoperability, crucial for the success of state-level interoperability initiatives across the country. By leveraging TEFCA’s standards and focus on clinical health information, other state policies and frameworks, such as California’s Data Exchange Framework, can build upon secure and confident data sharing among providers and entities to meet local priorities. When expectations are aligned and participants understand that engaging with TEFCA can also help them realize other interoperability initiatives, it creates a beneficial situation for patients, providers, and policymakers.

Balu Balasubramanyam, IT Principal Architect – Federal Health at Maximus
Trust is as important a factor as clear semantic definitions of health information to achieve interoperability. Standard data representation, secure information exchange, and human-centric design will simplify care team decisions. This benefits providers in reducing burnout and patients in reducing health risks, improving outcomes and satisfaction. The Trusted Exchange Framework Common Agreement (TEFCA) will be a catalyst, reducing information barriers and accelerating trust, making the US healthcare system more efficient.

Marlena Herrera, Director, Customer Success at Protegrity
Interoperability and standardization of security and privacy requirements through TEFCA increase the ability for patients to share their electronic health information [EHI] across Health Information Networks [HINs] with confidence and ease to achieve quality and informed care with their providers. Additionally, the ability to share the information across multiple healthcare entities allows research and health organizations to perform analytics that may result in improved health outcomes and arrive at data-based, well-informed decisions.

Don Rucker, Chief Strategy Officer at 1upHealth
Fundamentally, interoperability is advancing because healthcare is increasingly using modern RESTful FHIR APIs (a version of the RESTful JSON APIs that power the entire smartphone world). TEFCA relies on a 1990s document exchange protocol when the web was “page views” and didn’t support modern computing. TEFCA uses a complex network of brokers (QHINs) and will need to show it can actually support the complex and anti-competitive network structures it envisions. One fundamental problem TEFCA has not solved (claims notwithstanding) is computing on individual data fields with FHIR and privacy.

TEFCA relies on an attestation model (“trust me”) and has no fundamental protections for protecting patient privacy if anyone “attests” they are using a patient’s data for a “permitted” purpose. Obviously, the modern Internet starts with the totally opposite assumption of “zero trust” and provides protection with public key security and direct permissions – that is how every modern secure app works. How the public will react to the anti-competitive and insecure nature of TEFCA remains to be seen.

Diana Sonbay-Benli, VP & Chief Product Officer, Cognizant TriZetto Healthcare Products at Cognizant
TEFCA has the potential over the next few years to be one of the most important elements in improving the overall efficiency, collaboration, and trust of the US healthcare industry through its data sharing, not only among providers but with payers too. For years, the healthcare industry has been incrementally trying to move toward a value-based care model, yet our lack of standards and an overall integrated network of networks for real-time data exchange has hindered progress. With TEFCA, along with advances in Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) and associated mandates, we’ll be able to move clinical data more effectively and drive contextual incentives that enable and reward stakeholders for reducing redundancies, improving outcomes, and delivering care with new end-to-end efficiency. While it may never become a universal data-sharing fabric for the industry, its direct capabilities and indirect influences together will result in a reshaped and improved ecosystem.

Katie Devlin, DHSc, MS, CPHIMS, Vice President, Interoperability at Cotiviti, Inc.
Prior to the implementation of TEFCA, acquiring clinical data for healthcare payment and operations was an ambiguous process. With this framework in place, the industry is making considerable strides toward improving data accessibility. To take advantage of these advancements and ensure consistent, high-quality data, it is critical that both payers and providers consider the benefits of joining a Qualified Health Information Network to participate in TEFCA data exchange. Interoperability within the healthcare industry is advancing. We’re already seeing improvements in care coordination and higher member engagement, but all healthcare stakeholders will need to be actively involved to see the real benefits of data exchange.

Enrique Estrada, Solutions Executive, Healthcare at Nordic Global
EHR interoperability is an evolution that has taken shape over the past 30 years, from standalone systems to RHIOs, Community Health Networks, HIEs, and now QHINS. The promise has always been a shared standard and framework that allows us to do what’s ultimately best for the patient. TEFCA is a positive path forward for interoperability. The collaboration between the government, commercial market, and industry leaders enables primary players to come together to work around a trusted framework and access new sets of technology that can accelerate innovation, drive clinical collaboration, and more importantly, set a new foundation for how we can all do what’s best.

At the end of the day, interoperability is about ensuring that data flows where it needs to and bi-directionally. The expectation is like what happens in the financial industry; we can travel anywhere in the world and use our credit card. In healthcare, historically, your own patient data couldn’t follow you down the street. The data needs to follow the patient, and not the patient following the data.

Here is an example of a scenario you would not want to happen: you travel from your home in California to Florida, injure yourself, and are rushed to the ER, but your patient records from California didn’t follow you. Unfortunately, the Florida physicians didn’t have access to your medical history and provided you with medications that you’re known to have an adverse reaction to because the data was unavailable.

After all of these years of working towards interoperability, these situations continue to happen. That’s why the roll-out and adoption of TEFCA will be meaningful to all. We need the data to follow us to ensure we’re providing the best patient care.

Srikumar Ramanathan, Chief Solutions Officer at Mphasis
Interoperability in healthcare is advancing very fast in the last few years. As an industry, we have taken a big leap from Health Information Technology frameworks in the early 2000s to Meaningful use or BlueButton in the past decade to Health Information Exchanges/Networks to now TEFCA (Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement) which gives a national boost to Interoperability. All the earlier steps are limited to very narrow sets of entities (mostly a chain of providers or partner payers/providers) coming together to form their network and limited to a region or a state. TEFCA provides the technical channel, together with security, to handle queries and responses within performance SLAs among QHIN (Qualified Health Information Networks) through QTF (QHIN Technology Framework). With the implementation in place by the initial 5 QHIN pioneers and 2 additional QHINs soon joining, this provides a single national health information network to access patient data for improving quality and reducing the cost of healthcare.

Hans Buitendijk, Public Health Workgroup Chair & Executive Committee Member at EHR Association
Interoperability has made substantial progress across healthcare organizations and participants – providers, payers, patients, public health, agencies, research, and others. In fact, according to ONC’s latest statistics, 70% of hospitals now participate in interoperability. From the initial wide range of point-to-point exchanges and the creation of local health information exchanges to the advance of national networks, more and more data is being shared, enabling healthcare organizations and participants to have a more complete patient record, improve analytics and clinical decision support, and streamline complex, cross-organization workflows. TEFCA aims to expand the community that can share data and integrate workflows, particularly by going beyond treatment to also address other data exchange purposes (e.g., healthcare operations, public health, and others to follow) under the same common agreement and common set of standards at a national level. This increases its reach while lowering the barrier to connect legally and technically.

Laxmi Patel, Chief Strategy Officer at Savista
Interoperability in healthcare is advancing through the implementation of standardized frameworks and agreements that ensure seamless data sharing. The Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) plays a crucial role by establishing common principles and policies that promote secure and efficient exchange of health information. By fostering collaboration among various healthcare entities, TEFCA aims to improve patient care and reduce administrative burdens. This framework not only enhances the quality of healthcare but also ensures that patient data is accessible and protected across different systems and organizations.

Huge thank you to Etienne Boshoff, Managing Director at EHR Enhancify, John Blair, MD, CEO at MedAllies, Timi Leslie, President and Founder at BluePath Health and Connecting for Better Health,  Balu Balasubramanyam, IT Principal Architect – Federal Health at Maximus, Marlena Herrera, Director, Customer Success at Protegrity, Don Rucker, Chief Strategy Officer at 1upHealth, Liz Buckle, Director of Product at CommonWell Health Alliance, Diana Sonbay-Benli, VP & Chief Product Officer, Cognizant TriZetto Healthcare Products at Cognizant, Katie Devlin, DHSc, MS, CPHIMS, Vice President, Interoperability at Cotiviti, Inc., Enrique Estrada, Solutions Executive, Healthcare at Nordic Global, Srikumar Ramanathan, Chief Solutions Officer at Mphasis, Jay Nakashima, President at eHealth Exchange, Hans Buitendijk, Public Health Workgroup Chair & Executive Committee Member at EHR Association, and Laxmi Patel, Chief Strategy Officer at Savista for taking the time out of your day to submit a quote to us! And thank you to all of you for taking the time out of your day to read this article! We could not do this without all of your support.

How do you think interoperability in healthcare is advancing and what role do you think the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) play in facilitating seamless data sharing among healthcare entities? Let us know either in the comments down below or over on social media. We’d love to hear from all of you!

High-quality, reliable data is crucial to getting most things done in healthcare, especially for healthcare interoperability. However, having the data alone isn’t enough – we need to be able to share our data between healthcare entities. Without having the same data sets, how else are our organizations and different healthcare entities supposed to work together seamlessly? We’ve made some great strides in improving interoperability, in no small part due to the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA).

So let’s take a moment to check in and examine the current state of healthcare – how is interoperability in healthcare advancing and what role does TEFCA play in facilitating seamless data sharing among healthcare entities? We reached out to our brilliant Healthcare IT Today for their insights into this question, the following is what they had to share.

Liz Buckle, Director of Product at CommonWell Health Alliance
Interoperability is expanding in two significant ways. First, the number of healthcare organizations connecting to national networks and frameworks is steadily increasing, though many remain unconnected. Second, while there is growing interest in diversifying the types of exchanges permitted, scalability beyond Treatment exchange remains limited. TEFCA aims to address both challenges. The QHIN community is committed to helping all healthcare organizations achieve connectivity and advancing use cases such as Healthcare Operations, Public Health, and Individual Access Services. The foundation for success in both areas lies in the first word of TEFCA – Trust.

Jay Nakashima, President at eHealth Exchange
We continue to move closer to realizing the dream of complete interoperability, and TEFCA is a big part of that. With TEFCA, Designated QHINs are the dynamic force in the seamless sharing of health data among healthcare industry providers and organizations to improve patient outcomes. eHealth Exchange is proud to be one of the first Designated QHINs. Participating in TEFCA exchange offers significant benefits realized today such as fewer barriers to data access and targeted future ones, including expanded use cases for public health, and streamlined connectivity among providers, payers, health IT vendors, and patients. TEFCA represents the core values of eHealth Exchange, which most importantly focuses on nationwide interoperable and secure health data exchange to benefit patients whose care depends on it. We believe TEFCA will lead to additional exchange partners and eventually will support additional use cases beyond queries for treatment and individual access.

Etienne Boshoff, Managing Director at EHR Enhancify
Healthcare interoperability is advancing through the adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHRs), standardized APIs like FHIR, and emerging technologies such as blockchain. Policies like the 21st Century Cures Act and ONC/CMS rules enhance data access and prevent information blocking. TEFCA plays a crucial role in facilitating seamless data sharing by providing common principles, terms, and conditions for secure information exchange, promoting standardization, and ensuring reciprocity and accountability among healthcare entities.

Unfortunately, there are challenges in achieving standardized and secure data exchange. Fragmented systems are a major hurdle, as diverse EHR systems often lack compatibility, making seamless data sharing difficult. Data privacy and security concerns are paramount, given the sensitive nature of health information and the need to protect patient confidentiality while ensuring accessibility for healthcare providers. Technical variations also pose significant challenges; different standards and protocols across systems can impede interoperability and create inefficiencies. Cost constraints further complicate the landscape, as implementing and maintaining interoperable systems require substantial financial investment and resources.

These challenges can be effectively addressed through several strategies. Adopting standardized protocols like FHIR facilitates uniform data exchange and integration across different healthcare platforms, and implementing robust data security measures, such as advanced encryption, authentication, and access control mechanisms, ensures that data remains secure and patient privacy is maintained. Investing in interoperability infrastructure is essential to support the seamless exchange of data between systems, requiring both technological upgrades and financial commitments from healthcare organizations. Promoting collaborative efforts among stakeholders, including policymakers, healthcare providers, and technology vendors, fosters a cooperative environment where best practices and innovative solutions can be shared and implemented. In summary, while frameworks like TEFCA significantly advance healthcare interoperability, standardized protocols, robust security measures, and innovative technologies remain key to effective and secure data exchange.

John Blair, MD, CEO at MedAllies
Thanks to TEFCA, interoperability is advancing, increasing the reach for treatment and adding new use cases for healthcare stakeholders. TEFCA addresses certain interoperability obstacles by creating a glidepath for standards-based exchange, particularly for FHIR at a national scale. Navigating a balance between promoting data sharing and ensuring data privacy is critical, which is why stakeholders are now performing extensive and detailed analyses of treatment and privacy. We will continue to see the adoption of innovative technologies to enhance interoperability, such as Unified Data Platform (UDAP), which is being deployed to allow user registration, authentication, and authorization for FHIR-based exchange at a national scale.

Timi Leslie, Founder and President at BluePath Health and Connecting for Better Health
TEFCA provides a foundational standard for interoperability, crucial for the success of state-level interoperability initiatives across the country. By leveraging TEFCA’s standards and focus on clinical health information, other state policies and frameworks, such as California’s Data Exchange Framework, can build upon secure and confident data sharing among providers and entities to meet local priorities. When expectations are aligned and participants understand that engaging with TEFCA can also help them realize other interoperability initiatives, it creates a beneficial situation for patients, providers, and policymakers.

Balu Balasubramanyam, IT Principal Architect – Federal Health at Maximus
Trust is as important a factor as clear semantic definitions of health information to achieve interoperability. Standard data representation, secure information exchange, and human-centric design will simplify care team decisions. This benefits providers in reducing burnout and patients in reducing health risks, improving outcomes and satisfaction. The Trusted Exchange Framework Common Agreement (TEFCA) will be a catalyst, reducing information barriers and accelerating trust, making the US healthcare system more efficient.

Marlena Herrera, Director, Customer Success at Protegrity
Interoperability and standardization of security and privacy requirements through TEFCA increase the ability for patients to share their electronic health information [EHI] across Health Information Networks [HINs] with confidence and ease to achieve quality and informed care with their providers. Additionally, the ability to share the information across multiple healthcare entities allows research and health organizations to perform analytics that may result in improved health outcomes and arrive at data-based, well-informed decisions.

Don Rucker, Chief Strategy Officer at 1upHealth
Fundamentally, interoperability is advancing because healthcare is increasingly using modern RESTful FHIR APIs (a version of the RESTful JSON APIs that power the entire smartphone world). TEFCA relies on a 1990s document exchange protocol when the web was “page views” and didn’t support modern computing. TEFCA uses a complex network of brokers (QHINs) and will need to show it can actually support the complex and anti-competitive network structures it envisions. One fundamental problem TEFCA has not solved (claims notwithstanding) is computing on individual data fields with FHIR and privacy.

TEFCA relies on an attestation model (“trust me”) and has no fundamental protections for protecting patient privacy if anyone “attests” they are using a patient’s data for a “permitted” purpose. Obviously, the modern Internet starts with the totally opposite assumption of “zero trust” and provides protection with public key security and direct permissions – that is how every modern secure app works. How the public will react to the anti-competitive and insecure nature of TEFCA remains to be seen.

Diana Sonbay-Benli, VP & Chief Product Officer, Cognizant TriZetto Healthcare Products at Cognizant
TEFCA has the potential over the next few years to be one of the most important elements in improving the overall efficiency, collaboration, and trust of the US healthcare industry through its data sharing, not only among providers but with payers too. For years, the healthcare industry has been incrementally trying to move toward a value-based care model, yet our lack of standards and an overall integrated network of networks for real-time data exchange has hindered progress. With TEFCA, along with advances in Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) and associated mandates, we’ll be able to move clinical data more effectively and drive contextual incentives that enable and reward stakeholders for reducing redundancies, improving outcomes, and delivering care with new end-to-end efficiency. While it may never become a universal data-sharing fabric for the industry, its direct capabilities and indirect influences together will result in a reshaped and improved ecosystem.

Katie Devlin, DHSc, MS, CPHIMS, Vice President, Interoperability at Cotiviti, Inc.
Prior to the implementation of TEFCA, acquiring clinical data for healthcare payment and operations was an ambiguous process. With this framework in place, the industry is making considerable strides toward improving data accessibility. To take advantage of these advancements and ensure consistent, high-quality data, it is critical that both payers and providers consider the benefits of joining a Qualified Health Information Network to participate in TEFCA data exchange. Interoperability within the healthcare industry is advancing. We’re already seeing improvements in care coordination and higher member engagement, but all healthcare stakeholders will need to be actively involved to see the real benefits of data exchange.

Enrique Estrada, Solutions Executive, Healthcare at Nordic Global
EHR interoperability is an evolution that has taken shape over the past 30 years, from standalone systems to RHIOs, Community Health Networks, HIEs, and now QHINS. The promise has always been a shared standard and framework that allows us to do what’s ultimately best for the patient. TEFCA is a positive path forward for interoperability. The collaboration between the government, commercial market, and industry leaders enables primary players to come together to work around a trusted framework and access new sets of technology that can accelerate innovation, drive clinical collaboration, and more importantly, set a new foundation for how we can all do what’s best.

At the end of the day, interoperability is about ensuring that data flows where it needs to and bi-directionally. The expectation is like what happens in the financial industry; we can travel anywhere in the world and use our credit card. In healthcare, historically, your own patient data couldn’t follow you down the street. The data needs to follow the patient, and not the patient following the data.

Here is an example of a scenario you would not want to happen: you travel from your home in California to Florida, injure yourself, and are rushed to the ER, but your patient records from California didn’t follow you. Unfortunately, the Florida physicians didn’t have access to your medical history and provided you with medications that you’re known to have an adverse reaction to because the data was unavailable.

After all of these years of working towards interoperability, these situations continue to happen. That’s why the roll-out and adoption of TEFCA will be meaningful to all. We need the data to follow us to ensure we’re providing the best patient care.

Srikumar Ramanathan, Chief Solutions Officer at Mphasis
Interoperability in healthcare is advancing very fast in the last few years. As an industry, we have taken a big leap from Health Information Technology frameworks in the early 2000s to Meaningful use or BlueButton in the past decade to Health Information Exchanges/Networks to now TEFCA (Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement) which gives a national boost to Interoperability. All the earlier steps are limited to very narrow sets of entities (mostly a chain of providers or partner payers/providers) coming together to form their network and limited to a region or a state. TEFCA provides the technical channel, together with security, to handle queries and responses within performance SLAs among QHIN (Qualified Health Information Networks) through QTF (QHIN Technology Framework). With the implementation in place by the initial 5 QHIN pioneers and 2 additional QHINs soon joining, this provides a single national health information network to access patient data for improving quality and reducing the cost of healthcare.

Hans Buitendijk, Public Health Workgroup Chair & Executive Committee Member at EHR Association
Interoperability has made substantial progress across healthcare organizations and participants – providers, payers, patients, public health, agencies, research, and others. In fact, according to ONC’s latest statistics, 70% of hospitals now participate in interoperability. From the initial wide range of point-to-point exchanges and the creation of local health information exchanges to the advance of national networks, more and more data is being shared, enabling healthcare organizations and participants to have a more complete patient record, improve analytics and clinical decision support, and streamline complex, cross-organization workflows. TEFCA aims to expand the community that can share data and integrate workflows, particularly by going beyond treatment to also address other data exchange purposes (e.g., healthcare operations, public health, and others to follow) under the same common agreement and common set of standards at a national level. This increases its reach while lowering the barrier to connect legally and technically.

Laxmi Patel, Chief Strategy Officer at Savista
Interoperability in healthcare is advancing through the implementation of standardized frameworks and agreements that ensure seamless data sharing. The Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) plays a crucial role by establishing common principles and policies that promote secure and efficient exchange of health information. By fostering collaboration among various healthcare entities, TEFCA aims to improve patient care and reduce administrative burdens. This framework not only enhances the quality of healthcare but also ensures that patient data is accessible and protected across different systems and organizations.

Huge thank you to Etienne Boshoff, Managing Director at EHR Enhancify, John Blair, MD, CEO at MedAllies, Timi Leslie, President and Founder at BluePath Health and Connecting for Better Health,  Balu Balasubramanyam, IT Principal Architect – Federal Health at Maximus, Marlena Herrera, Director, Customer Success at Protegrity, Don Rucker, Chief Strategy Officer at 1upHealth, Liz Buckle, Director of Product at CommonWell Health Alliance, Diana Sonbay-Benli, VP & Chief Product Officer, Cognizant TriZetto Healthcare Products at Cognizant, Katie Devlin, DHSc, MS, CPHIMS, Vice President, Interoperability at Cotiviti, Inc., Enrique Estrada, Solutions Executive, Healthcare at Nordic Global, Srikumar Ramanathan, Chief Solutions Officer at Mphasis, Jay Nakashima, President at eHealth Exchange, Hans Buitendijk, Public Health Workgroup Chair & Executive Committee Member at EHR Association, and Laxmi Patel, Chief Strategy Officer at Savista for taking the time out of your day to submit a quote to us! And thank you to all of you for taking the time out of your day to read this article! We could not do this without all of your support.

How do you think interoperability in healthcare is advancing and what role do you think the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) play in facilitating seamless data sharing among healthcare entities? Let us know either in the comments down below or over on social media. We’d love to hear from all of you!