Amy Bagge-Smith

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AHLA's Speaking of Health Law · Latest Developments in Interoperability Litigation · 23 Jun 2026 podcast

Um so really think of it as instead of picking up the phone and requesting a fax for those medical records, that you have the ability to procure that information electronically.

Um so when we're talking about

National networks, we're talking about Commonwealth, which supports Athena, uh, and and other types of organiz smaller uh EHR organizations.

You have care equality, uh, which is something that was spun up and supported by uh Epic.

And then you have the trust uh you have TEFCA, which is the trust exchange, the trust exchange framework and common agreement, which is the government endorsed framework that was contemplated by by

the Cures Act.

Uh all of these function um

To provide access to this data with one very clear limitation, which is that this data can be pulled from these networks for treatment purposes only.

So if you think about HIPAA, HIPAA allows for use of this data for treatment, healthcare operations, and payment purposes.

But these networks operate on a level right now.

Hopefully there's expansion in the future, but right now they operate.

where you can only pull this data for treatment of a patient.

So if you have an upcoming appointment, for example, and you would like to do you'd like to understand as a primary care provider what has what has your patient been doing in the last nine months to understand what they're doing and be able to just, you know, kind of hit the ground running.

is an example of how you'd use it.

Value-based care organizations, uh, it's very important for them to to understand where their patients are and that longitudinal record becomes really critical.

So those are just some examples of of how these these networks are useful.

These networks have an overarch each of them have overarching terms and conditions that govern the use of their networks.

And there's a variety of different terms and conditions.

If you take a look at Tufka, you'll see not only are there's there a common agreement, but there are

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