Seventeen healthcare organizations using Epic’s software connected to a federally backed health information network in November.
The organizations began participating in the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement in November, an Epic spokesperson told Becker’s. TEFCA, a government-led initiative launched in 2022, aims to establish a nationwide standard for sharing electronic health data. To date, more than 1,000 hospitals and health systems have connected to TEFCA through Epic.
Epic’s participating hospitals and clinics are linked through its qualified health information network, Epic Nexus, which received its federal QHIN designation in 2023.
Here are the healthcare organizations that went live with TEFCA in November:
- Acumen Physician Solutions
- Bassett Healthcare Network (Cooperstown, N.Y.)
- Baylor Scott & White Health (Dallas)
- Beebe Healthcare (Lewes, Del.)
- Cambridge Health Alliance (Cambridge, Mass.)
- CGH Medical Center (Sterling, Ill.)
- Chickasaw Nation (Ada, Okla.)
- Deaconess Health System (Evansville, Ind.)
- Hawaii Health Systems Corp. (Honolulu)
- Lehigh Valley Health Network (Allentown, Pa.)
- Novant Health (Winston-Salem, N.C.)
- Renown Health (Reno, Nev.)
- Sharp HealthCare (San Diego)
- UC Health (Cincinnati)
- UCLA Health (Los Angeles)
- UI Health (Chicago)
- University of Mississippi Medical Center (Jackson)
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