State and regional health details exchanges that accept a public health usage case with eHealth Exchange or the brand-new Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement program by April 30 will have 3 years of yearly charges waived.
The Qualified Health Information Network is promoting more public health usage cases under TEFCA, especially amongst those state, tribal, regional and territorial public health firms.
While a number of its network members are engaged with public health, eHealth Exchange requires early adopters for the TEFCA public health usage cases to support the awareness of the budding federal structure, Jay Nakashima, executive director of eHealth Exchange, stated in a statement Tuesday.
“Tying public health into present across the country health information exchange efforts will make sure a much healthier client population throughout the U.S,” he stated.
As part of its draft TEFCA 2.0 upgrade, The Sequoia Project, ONC’s acknowledged collaborating entity for TEFCA, is proposing extremely expected treatments for electronic case reporting, which is currently needed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for qualified health centers and clinicians given that 2022.
“Based on our existing members’ comprehensive experience, we understand electronic health information exchange can make a considerable influence on electronic case reporting and public health tracking,” Nakashima included.
About 80 million electronic case reports sent today by service providers to state, tribal, regional and territorial companies across the country go through eHealth Exchange, according to the QHIN.
HIEs are qualified for eHealth Exchange’s reward program if they follow these requirements:
- Dedicate by April 30 to exchanging medical information for an agreed-upon public health usage case through eHealth Exchange.
- Start screening by June 30.
- Go reside in production exchanging public health information with other eHealth Exchange individuals or TEFCA QHINs by December 30.
“By supplying monetary rewards to existing and potential members, we will assist speed even more adoption of important public health information interoperability throughout the whole health care neighborhood,” Nakashima stated.
Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.
Email: afox@himss.org
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