Mariann Yeager, CEO, The Sequoia Project (the TEFCA Recognized Coordinating Entity)
CEO, The Sequoia Project (the TEFCA Recognized Coordinating Entity)
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What Makes TEFCA Different: New Standard Operating Procedure Strengthens Trust
Mariann Yeager, CEO, The Sequoia Project (the TEFCA Recognized Coordinating Entity) | December 10, 2024
The “T” in Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement™ (TEFCA™) is an important part of what drives our work. So too is the public-private engagement we have created over the past seven years. As we launched TEFCA last year we did so with the expectation that we would need to make iterative adjustments over time to help it grow. That’s why we’ve recently released a new standard operating procedure (SOP) to guide how organizations seeking to participate in specific “Exchange Purposes” within TEFCA are vetted (see: Vetting Process SOP).
Read Full Post.Building TEFCA
Mariann Yeager, CEO, The Sequoia Project (the TEFCA Recognized Coordinating Entity) | February 13, 2023
A little over a year ago, we announced the completion of a critical 21st Century Cures Act requirement by publishing the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common AgreementSM (TEFCASM). This milestone established a clear infrastructure model and governing approach for nationwide health information exchange.
Read Full Post.Marching Forward: The Path to Operationalize TEFCA
Mariann Yeager, CEO, The Sequoia Project (the TEFCA Recognized Coordinating Entity) | May 16, 2022
On January 18, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and the TEFCA Recognized Coordinating Entity® (RCETM), The Sequoia Project, released the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common AgreementSM (TEFCASM). The next key step for TEFCA is the release of resources to advance its operationalization, such as standard operating procedures (SOPs). These SOPs will include specific policies and procedures to further guide QHINs and will identify, where applicable, necessary technical implementation requirements.
Read Full Post.3…2…1…TEFCA is Go for Launch
Mariann Yeager, CEO, The Sequoia Project (the TEFCA Recognized Coordinating Entity) | January 18, 2022
The Trusted Exchange Framework and Common AgreementSM is now available. Within the health information technology (health IT) world, few things have been as elusive as a governance framework for nationwide health information exchange. When ONC was formed in 2004, the concept of a nationwide health information network—where your information could be located across the country in a click—was a big picture vision that drove the federal government’s early health IT infrastructure, standards, policy actions, and investments.
Read Full Post.TEFCA Will be Live in 2022
Mariann Yeager, CEO, The Sequoia Project (the TEFCA Recognized Coordinating Entity) | July 13, 2021
Today we are pleased to announce the timeline for the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common AgreementSM (TEFCASM). The 21st Century Cures Act, signed by President Obama in 2016, calls on ONC to “develop or support a trusted exchange framework, including a common agreement among health information networks nationally.”
In August 2019, ONC awarded a cooperative agreement to The Sequoia Project to serve as the Recognized Coordinating Entity® (RCETM) to administer a new nationwide network based on the Common Agreement.