28 healthcare orgs join Epic’s data-sharing framework

Twenty-eight healthcare organizations using Epic’s software are now connected to a federally backed health information network.

The organizations joined the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement in June, an Epic spokesperson told Becker’s. TEFCA is a government-led initiative launched in 2022 to create a nationwide standard for sharing electronic health data.

Epic’s participating hospitals and clinics are connected through its own Qualified Health Information Network, Epic Nexus, which was designated a federal QHIN in 2023.

Here are the healthcare organizations that went live with TEFCA in June:

1. AdventHealth
2. AltaMed
3. Beth Israel Lahey Health
4. Brown University Health
5. Cape Fear Valley Health
6. Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
7. Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
8. Clinica Sierra Vista
9. Cleveland Clinic
10. FastMed
11. FirstHealth of the Carolinas
12. Genesis Healthcare System
13. Health First
14. Kettering Health
15. Luminis Health
16. Main Line Health
17. Mary Washington Healthcare
18. Mercy (St. Louis, MO)
19. Midwestern University
20. Ochsner Health System
21. Onvida Health
22. ProMedica
23. Scripps Health
24. Shannon Health
25. Southern Illinois Healthcare
26. Summit Health
27. Valleywise Health
28. Washington Health