Many new Opportunities for Healthcare Data Exchange are Brewing This week under a universal policy for nationwide interoperability.
SuresCripts Approved for Tefca Participation
SuresCripts Network Alliance Participants, Including Electronic Health Records and Other Technology Vendors, Health Plans, Health Systems and Pharmacies, can not exchange data up Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement on the surescripts health information network.
The Sequoia Project Designed Suscripts’ Interconnect a Tefca Qualified Health Information Network (QHIN), according to the announcing on tuesday. The company initially applied for Qhin Status in 2023.
The new QHIN can provides health systems and others with directory management, patient matching, document querry and delivery, the company said.
“SURESCRIPTS Health Information Network will Leverage the Industry-Lading Reliability, Support and Deep Party Partnership That Our Parent Company, SuresCripts, SURESCRIPTS, is KNOWN For,” Tara Dragin for, the Company’s Chief Product Officer and the President of its Hin, said in a statement.
New Interoperability Checklist for Payers
On tuesday, the sequoia project’s payer workgroup published a checklist to help payers comply with critical interoperability regulations regulations that go into effect on jan. 1, 2027 – and which are Proving to be challenging for many payer organizations,
Called the payer-to-post healthcare interoperability Resources API Compliance Readiness Checklist, it is designed to help payers prepare for components with components with the centers for Medicaid Services CMS-0057-F Rule Governing Healthcare Data Sharing.
“It is important that payer interoperability is prepared for the upcoming CMS deadline,” Mariann Yeager, The Sequoia Project’s CEO, said in a statement.
Because Patients May Change Their Health Insurance Companies
“The goal of this regulation is to improve control Payer-to-Payer Workgroup.
Under Tefca 2.0Exchange must be supported for api exchange using fhir, an hl7 spec. Payers can use the editable checklist to identify bot explicit and implicit regulatory and operating requirements, the sequoia project said.
“This checklist makes it easy for payers to facilitate the payer-to-post,” said oakley.
Partnership to Increase Tefca Participation
Redox, A Healthcare Data Interoperability Provider, Announced Earlier this month that it has joined the Commonwell Health Alliance Qhin.
“Our partnership with commonwell provides an Easier Path Forward for Redox Customers who Want To Participate in Tefca,” Trip Hofer, The Company’s CEO, Said in a statement. “With access to Commonwell’s Network, Our Customers will be able to obtain more Comprehensive Data Than is Possible with Point-to-point connections.”
The company said it offers participants, even that on a legacy network, to write back in real time with direct connections.
“In the future, our interoperability platform will allow these customers to easily test, compare and switch between networks and quhins with minimal risk,” Hofer noted.
“Tefca Enables Mostly Read-Only Data Exchanges, But Operational Workflows in Healthcare Commonly Require Writing Data Back ITO The Provider Workflow,” He explained. “Without this capability, full interopeability will remain out of reach.”
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