Dive Brief:
- The Carequality Interoperability Framework contains legal terms, policy requirements, technical specifications and governance processes which operationalize data sharing under the previously approved Principles of Trust.
- The framework can establish data sharing partnerships by leveraging existing networks.
- The initial launch of data sharing under the framework involves 12 organizations, all of which assisted in the development of the framework, and will focus initially on the query-based exchange of clinical outcomes.
Dive Insight:
According to Carequality, health information exchange was preceded by individual legal agreements between individual data sharing partners and involved costly negotiations and inconsistent experiences in quality and quantity of data exchanged.
"The beauty of the framework is that it's general; it can be applied to any type of content and any technical architecture," said Dave Cassel, director of Carequality. Dr. Michael Hodgkins, vice president and CMIO of the AMA and chair of the Carequality Steering Committee said, "The development and adoption of the Carequality Interoperability Framework are key to enabling coordinated care for patients nationwide."