The group of providers is committed to using Epic software to share patient health information through the Trusted Exchange Framework and General Agreement in a new agreement with Epic’s TEFCA Interoperability Service, electronic health record provider said.
WHY IT IMPORTANT
Epic says that health organizations that are joining their eligible health information network already use Epic’s interoperable tools to promote information sharing, but they will receive the software. likely to interact this year.
According to Monday’s announcement, the group of providers was accepted to participate in the QHIN pilot phase under TEFCA in February.
The EHR provider notes that the participating medical organizations are some of the best known in the United States. The people on the team participating in the nationwide TEFCA framework range from large health systems and hospitals to safety nets.
Dr Matthew Eisenberg, associate director of health information at Stanford Health Care, said: “We have long supported regional partnerships to promote data sharing across treatments and partners. Our Northern California partners were pioneers in national interoperability by early joining the Quality of Care Framework. statement.
“We are excited about the vision of a simpler, if not unique, national health information exchange platform that will benefit all of our patients and service providers.” we.”
Epic QHIN’s committed healthcare organizations are:
- Alameda Health System
- Baptist Medical (Florida)
- Baptist Medical (Kentucky)
- Cedars-Sinai
- Health Contra Costa
- Guthrie
- Hawaii Pacific Health
- Houston manager
- Johns Hopkins Medicine
- Eternal Kaiser
- Primary care
- Inherited Health
- Mayo Clinic
- MetroHealth
- Michigan Medicine
- Mount Sinai Health System
- NYU Langone Health
- OCHIN
- Organization of Pediatricians at Children’s Hospital
- Rush University Medical Center
- Stanford Healthcare
- UC Davis Medical
- Weill Cornell Medicine
- Yale’s New Haven Health
TREND TO BIGGER WOMAN
With the launch of TEFCA last year, the National Coordinator’s Office for Health IT and the Sequoia Project, the nationally recognized interoperability coordinator, said it had three goals – to establish a common policy and technical floor for nationwide interoperability, to simplify the secure exchange of patient data to improve patient care and to enable patients to collect their health information .
The ONC inaugurated six QHINs to establish a common policy for interoperability across the country and simplify secure connectivity between organizations.
Last week, MedAllies announced its approval as the seventh QHIN under TEFCA.
“If we can do this, we will be able to realize one of the most important aspirations we have as a nation today, which is to improve health outcomes for every American regardless of gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, or zip code,” said Dr. Arati Prabhakar, scientific advisor and director of the Office of Science Policy and Policy. White House Technology, said at an event in February that featured several federal agencies marking key interoperability milestones.
Matt Doyle, head of interactive software development at Epic, says Healthcare IT News in March that for QHIN to integrate healthcare providers, “you need policies that promote trust.”
ON PROFILE
“By joining TEFCA, these health systems reaffirm their ongoing commitment to improving patient care by promoting the exchange of health information,” Doyle said in a statement.
“Our plan is to deliver software this year to help our customers be among the first to join TEFCA, and we’re optimistic that nearly all 2,000 hospitals and 600,000 clinicians Epic users across the US will participate.”
Andrea Fox is the senior editor of Healthcare IT News.
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