TEFCA: With greater simplification comes greater cybersecurity responsibility

The Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement, created by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT under the 21st Century Cures Act, holds huge promise for interoperability and information exchange. 

It also has big implications for privacy and security.

“It’s possible that a TEFCA security incident is also a HIPAA security incident, and it’s possible that a HIPAA security incident may or may not be a TEFCA security…