Dive Brief:

More than 1,000 hospitals and 22,000 clinics that use Epic are live on the federal government’s health information sharing framework, the electronic health record vendor said Monday.

Epic plans to transition all of its customers to the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement, or TEFCA, by the end of the year, according to Matt Doyle, Epic’s Interoperability Software Development Lead.

Currently 41% of Epic’s customers are live with TEFCA, while 43% are working to implement the data sharing network. The remaining 16% are in planning stages, Doyle said in an emailed statement.

Dive Insight:

TEFCA is a major initiative for healthcare interoperability, setting technical requirements and exchange policies for companies to pull together clinical information sharing netw

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