Source: CNBC
TEFCA falls under the purview of an office in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Patients can think about TEFCA like they think about using their cellphone, said Micky Tripathi, assistant secretary for technology policy and national coordinator for health information technology at HHS. If one person uses Verizon as their phone carrier, a second person uses AT&T and a third person uses T-Mobile, they are all still able to call and text one another. The same playbook applies to TEFCA. “The idea was, ‘We really ought to just have that user experience that wherever I am, whichever system I’m using, I know that it’ll connect to every other network, whichever network I’m on,’” Tripathi told CNBC in an interview.