Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC)
| The Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of War Join the TEFCA® NetworkLast week, ONC and HHS announced that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of War have joined the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement™ (TEFCA®). This will expand secure, timely health information exchange for America’s veterans and warfighters, especially those who receive care in multiple locations. Launched in 2023, TEFCA continues to improve care coordination and ensure health information moves securely when and where it is needed.
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Missed our HTI-5 Final Rule Info Session?You can now watch the recording from the information session on the Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: ONC Deregulatory Actions to Unleash Prosperity (HTI-5) Final Rule. The HTI-5 final rule significantly reduces administrative burden for health IT developers participating in the ONC Health IT Certification Program. |
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Registration Open: The 2027 ONC Annual MeetingRegistration is open for the 2027 ONC Annual Meeting! Join us in February for conversations surrounding TEFCA, super intelligence, information blocking, and more. |
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AHRQ Super Intelligence for Healthcare Improvement Initiative The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) launched its Super Intelligence (SI) for Healthcare Improvement Initiative – a two-part prize competition offering up to $7.95 million for innovative solutions that improve how healthcare evidence and data are produced and used. The initiative includes the Clinical Evidence Synthesis Transformation Challenge, which seeks a working system capable of dramatically improving the speed, consistency, and reproducibility of rigorous evidence synthesis, and the SI Tech Sprint for Healthcare Research and Implementation Quality and Safety, which seeks practical applications that use AHRQ data to advance research and translate evidence into healthcare quality- and safety-improvement activities. Individuals, teams, and for-profit and nonprofit entities may compete, and non-traditional participants are encouraged. AHRQ will host a public launch webinar in December. |
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Request for Information: Data Intermediaries and Approaches to Strengthen Public Health Data ExchangeCDC is seeking public input on how public health data intermediaries, such as health information exchanges, health data utilities, and qualified health information networks, could help health information flow more easily and securely across systems and organizations. Your feedback can inform approaches to making health data more accessible and usable, strengthening connections across public health and healthcare, and advancing secure, scalable, standards-based data exchange. Submit comments by November 20, 2026. |
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