On Monday, February 13, United States Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Xavier Becerra and National Coordinator for Health IT Micky Tripathi recognized the below organizations for their willingness to voluntarily step up and meet the demanding eligibility requirements, terms, and conditions of TEFCA participation.
These organizations are candidate Qualified Health Information Networks (QHINs) that were accepted to move forward with the testing and project plan phase. Following this approval, these candidate QHINs committed to meeting a 12-month go-live timeline and, if successful, will be designated as QHINs.
CommonWell Health Alliance
eHealth Exchange
Epic TEFCA Interoperability Services
Health Gorilla
Kno2
KONZA National Network
The prospective QHIN Application, Onboarding, and Designation process has been divided into a series of five phases.