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HHS reports TEFCA expansion as network exchanges one billion health records

A photo of Chris Klomp, HHS Chief Counselor and Director of the Center for Medicare, Mehmet Oz, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services standing together at a press briefing.
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The department said the latest investments reflect an ongoing commitment to strengthen the security and reliability of the national health information exchange infrastructure.

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced an expansion of the federal government’s Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) and that the network has exchanged more than 1 billion health records through the system.

TEFCA is a government-led national framework for secure electronic health information

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