Source: Health Data Management
The overall goal of TEFCA is “to establish a universal floor for interoperability across the country,” according to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. “The Common Agreement will establish the infrastructure model and governing approach for users in different networks to securely share basic clinical information with each other — all under commonly agreed-to expectations and rules, and regardless of which network they happen to be in.”
Further, ONC describes the Trusted Exchange Framework as including “a common set of non-binding, foundational principles for trust policies and practices that can help facilitate exchange among HINs.”