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Draft TEFCA Facilitated FHIR Implementation Guide: A Public Health Perspective

BY Noam Arzt ON November 3, 2022
ASTP/ONC | EHR/PHR | FHIR | HIE & Interoperability | HL7 | Planning | TEFCA

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On October 7, 2022, the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) project released a Draft TEFCA Facilitated FHIR Implementation Guide. As described in an earlier post, the project released a specific plan for integrating HL7 Fast Health Information Resources (FHIR) into the architecture that was defined explicitly in a new Roadmap for later implementation. This draft implementation guide (IG) provides the initial proposed details for this functionality.

TEFCA only poses technical requirements on its direct participants, the Qualified Health Information Networks, or QHINs, but they are not the actual sources nor destinations of the data. The actual “FHIR details” are sketchy in this IG; maybe that is by design. It seems to specify just what the QHIN needs to know to do patient discovery and move the query and response around rather than any specifics on where a query originates nor where the response goes, let alone what data is contained.

The only mention of public health is in the appendices to the document. It contains language related to the exchange of data with public health, but only in the case of a declared public health emergency. No other context is provided (in fact, this section is each appendix and their purpose is not clear). Perhaps this is tied to the earlier declaration that only the treatment and Individual Access Services are required for initial QHIN implementation. This emergency language may have been included to make room for an initial public health use case that may be required nonetheless.

Feedback is requested through November 7, 2022.

See our other posts about TEFCA.

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