Epic Systems announced on Monday it has reached what it's calling milestone in interoperability: a significant and growing number of hospitals and clinics exchanging health data across its TEFCA Qualified Health Information Network.

WHY IT MATTERS

The Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement, established to fulfill health data exchange requirements in the 21st Century Cures Act, can help to ensure that any medical provider can participate in nationwide patient data exchange.

TEFCA standardizes the secure exchange of critical health information at the point of care.

Approved QHINs under the nationwide framework can lower historic barriers to data interoperability that many health systems, especially those in rural and underserved communities, have acutely faced, Epic said in its

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