Source: GovCIO
According to ONC, creating interoperability can be very complex and require multiple connections. Deputy National Coordinator for Health IT Steven Posnack said the agency is continuing to pursue ways to streamline some of the processes by focusing on six different initial exchange purposes — and to achieve it at the network scale and the national level for TEFCA. “Where there’s some variability today from a policy perspective is that certainly the networks focus on treatment and a lot of them do that as well but including public health, including payers, including other types of health operations, other business cases and benefits determination. Those are other exchange purposes that we’ve included now up front as part of the common agreements expectations,” said Posnack.