Leading Health Systems Pledge to Join TEFCA

Updated 11/18/2024

Health systems across the U.S. are pledging to join a nationwide health information sharing framework called Trusted Exchange Framework and the Common Agreement (TEFCA). TEFCA is a public-private partnership authorized in the 21^st Century Cures Act, a bipartisan congressional initiative to advance interoperability across the country. 

The health systems that have pledged to join TEFCA include some of the most renowned and respected medical organizations in the U.S. and span from large hospitals to safety nets. These health systems already use Epic’s interoperability tools to advance information sharing and have pledged to use Epic’s software to share health information through the emerging TEFCA framework.

“By joining TEFCA, these health systems reaffirm their ongoing commitment to improving patient care by advancing health information exchange,” said Matt Doyle, Interoperability Software Development Lead at Epic. “Our plan is to deliver software this year that will help our customers to be among the initial participants in TEFCA, and we’re optimistic that nearly all of the 2,000 hospitals and 600,000 clinicians that use Epic across the U.S. will participate.”

“Stanford Health Care is excited to join the nationwide TEFCA framework. We have long supported regional partnerships to promote data sharing for treatment and our North California partners have been trailblazers in national interoperability as early participants in the Carequality Framework,” said Dr. Matthew Eisenberg, Associate CMIO at Stanford Health Care, one of the pledging hospitals. “We are excited about the vision of a simpler if not single on-ramp to secure, national health information exchange that will benefit all of our patients and providers.”

Epic TEFCA Interoperability Services was among the first set of applicants accepted to continue to the testing phase of the QHIN Designation process under TEFCA in February. Making TEFCA a reality is the next step in Epic’s long history of pioneering interoperability.

In 2008, Epic’s provider community began using Care Everywhere, the first interoperability platform of its kind. Today, providers use Care Everywhere to exchange 14 million full patient charts daily, and half of those exchanges occur with organizations using other vendor systems.

In 2014, Epic was a founding member of the Carequality framework with support from the broader healthcare community and federal government stakeholders. Today, 100% of Epic’s U.S.-based hospital and clinic customers participate in Carequality.

Starting in 2018, Epic collaborated with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), The Sequoia Project as the Recognized Coordinating Entity (RCE), and the broader healthcare community to refine the principles and policies of TEFCA, and was the first EHR to announce its intent to join TEFCA last spring.

Live Organizations: 83 Health Systems Representing 509 Hospitals and 9,888 Clinics

• Advocate Aurora Health
• Altru Health System
• AnMed
• Ardent
• Atrius Health
• Ballad Health
• Baptist Health (Jacksonville, FL)
• Baptist Memorial Health Care
• Beaver Medical Group
• Cheyenne Regional Medical Center
• Columbus Regional Health
• Community Health Network
• Community Medical Centers
• Conemaugh Health System
• Corewell Health
• Covenant HealthCare
• Dayton Children’s Hospital
• Denver Health
• El Rio Health
• Emory Healthcare
• EngleWood Hospital and Medical Center
• Erlanger Health
• Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System, Inc.
• Hamilton Health Care System
• Hattiesburg Clinical and Forrest County General Hospital
• Health Ventures of Central Iowa
• Hospital Sisters Health System (HSHS)
• Intermountain Health
• JPS Health Network
• Jupiter Medical Center
• Kelsey-Seybold Clinic
• Lakeland Regional Health
• Legacy Health
• Licking Memorial Health Systems
• M Health Fairview
• Mayo Clinic
• McLeod Health
• Mercy Medical Center
• Mercyhealth
• MetroHealth (OH)
• Montage Health
• Monument Health
• NCH Healthcare System
• New Jersey Urology
• North Memorial Health
• Northeast Georgia Health System
• NYC Health and Hospitals
• OptumCare East
• OptumCare West
• Orlando Health
• OrthoVirginia
• OSF HealthCare
• Parkview Health
• Pikeville Medical Center
• Powers Health
• Reid Health
• Reliant Medical Group
• RWJBarnabas Health
• Saint Luke’s Health System (MO)
• Salem Health
• Sansum Clinic
• Singing River Health System
• South Georgia Medical Center
• Southeast Health
• St Jude Children’s Research Hospital
• St. Charles Health System, Inc.
• Stanford Children’s Health
• Stanford Health Care
• Stormont Vail Health
• Tampa General Hospital
• Texas Health Resources
• The Guthrie Clinic
• The Portland Clinic
• TriHealth
• UK Healthcare
• UMass Memorial Health
• United Regional Health Care System
• University Health
• University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
• University of Chicago Medical Center
• University of Kansas Health System
• UTHealth Houston
• VHC Health
• WellSpan Health

Pledging Organizations: 132 Health Systems Representing 987 Hospitals and 22,331 Clinics

• Access Community Health Network
• AdventHealth
• Alameda Health System
• Allegheny Health Network
• Allina Health System
• Altais
• Asante Health System
• Atrium Health
• Baptist Health
• Baptist Healthcare System
• Bassett Healthcare
• Bayhealth Medical Center
• Beth Israel Lahey Health
• BJC HealthCare & Washington University
• Boulder Community Health
• Bronson Healthcare Group
• Broward Health
• Buffalo Medical Group
• Cape Cod HealthCare
• Cape Fear Valley Health System
• Care New England
• Carilion Clinic
• CarolinaEast Health System
• CaroMont Health
• Catholic Health (Buffalo)
• Cedars-Sinai Health System
• CentraCare
• Central Ohio Primary Care Physicians
• Children’s Hospital Colorado
• Children’s Wisconsin
• CHRISTUS Health
• CommonSpirit Health National
• Community Technology Cooperative
• Cone Health
• Contra Costa Health
• Duke University Health System
• ECU Health
• El Camino Health
• Emplify Health
• EPIC Management (Beaver Medical Group)
• Essentia Health
• FirstHealth of the Carolinas
• Genesis Healthcare System
• Greater Baltimore Medical Center
• GW University Medical Faculty Associates
• Hawaii Health Systems Corporation
• Hawaii Pacific Health
• Health Choice Network
• Health First, Inc
• HealthPoint
• Hennepin Healthcare
• Henry Ford Health
• Hill Physicians Medical Group
• HonorHealth
• Houston Methodist
• Hurley Medical Center
• Illinois Bone & Joint Institute
• Infirmary Health System
• Jefferson Health
• Johns Hopkins Medicine
• Kaiser Permanente – National
• Kennedy Krieger Institute
• Kettering Health
• KeyCare
• LCMC Health
• Lifespan
• Loma Linda University Medical Center
• Luminis Health
• MaineHealth
• Mary Washington Healthcare
• MediSys Health Network
• Memorial Health Services (MemorialCare)
• Methodist Hospitals (IN)
• Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare
• Michigan Medicine
• Middlesex Health
• Mount Sinai Health System
• MultiCare Health System
• New York Consortium
• North East Medical Services
• Norton Healthcare
• NYU Langone Health
• OCHIN
• Ochsner Health System
• OU Health
• Overlake Hospital Medical Center
• Pacific Dental Services
• Parkland Health
• Pediatric Physicians’ Organization at Children’s
• Piedmont Healthcare
• Premier Health
• Presbyterian Healthcare Services
• Prime Healthcare
• Prisma Health
• Riverside Health System
• Rush University Medical Center
• Saint Francis Health System
• Salinas Valley Health
• Sanford Health
• Shannon Health
• Skagit Regional Health
• Southern Illinois Healthcare
• South Shore Health System
• St Luke’s Health System (Idaho)
• St Luke’s University Health Network
• Sutter Health
• Summit Health
• Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare
• The Brooklyn Hospital Center
• The Queen’s Health System
• TidalHealth
• Tucson Medical Center
• UC Davis Health
• UC Health
• UMC Southern Nevada
• UnityPoint Health
• University of Florida
• University of Maryland Medical System
• University of Miami
• University of Michigan Health-Sparrow
• University of Michigan Health-West
• University of Texas Medical Branch
• UT Health San Antonio
• UW Medicine
• Valley Health Systems, Inc FQHC
• Watson Clinic
• Wellstar
• WVU Medicine
• Yale New Haven Health System and Yale University

If your organization is interested in joining this list by pledging to join TEFCA, reach out to your Epic BFF.