Source: Healthcare IT News
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT and the Sequoia Project on Monday announced the launch of Common Agreement Version 2.0, an update to the document most recently released this past November. ONC also published new Participant and Subparticipant Terms of Participation, which set forth the requirements that participants must agree to and comply with to exchange data under the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement. ONC and Sequoia say the seven designated Qualified Health Information Networks under TEFCA can now adopt and begin implementing the new version, CA v2.0, which has been updated to require support for API exchange using HL7’s FHIR spec. That will allow TEFCA participants and subparticipants to more easily exchange health information among themselves and will help individuals to more easily access their own data using devices and apps of their choice.