TEFCA promises nationwide connectivity. But here's what no one's saying out loud: an open network without rigorous trust infrastructure is an invitation for trouble. When anyone can technically request your patients' data, ""connected"" starts to feel a lot like ""exposed.""
This session cuts through the interoperability cheerleading to address the question of keeping health system leaders up at night — how do you know who's on the other end of a data request, and what they plan to do with it?
Drawing from experience connecting 50+ EHR partners and hundreds of thousands of providers, we'll get into the mechanics of trust at national scale: onboarding that validates clinical purpose before anyone gets access, safeguards against speculative data fishing, and governance that doesn't disappear after go-live.