“Genevieve Morris, principal deputy national coordinator for health IT, said at ONC’s annual meeting that the draft version of the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement is expected to debut in December, providing a path to share electronic health records across networks.”
“The law calls for ONC and the National Institute of Standards and Technology to collaborate on a set of policies to establish a trusted and voluntary framework capable of sharing health information across networks while still protecting proprietary information.”
“When you talk to health care organizations, there’s just this massive amount of agreements that go on right now, these one-off agreements that they have to do with everyone they want to exchange with,” Morris said. “And that just adds a cost and time component to our system that it really can’t afford…”
