There’s no better story about Health Equity than the impact TEFCA and SDOH can have on our greater population. After 12 years of initial strides toward Meaningful Use, health data is now becoming more available and requested digitally, yet it is still stuck in proprietary formats that make interoperability and integration overly complicated and expensive. Meanwhile, any data that is collected could and should be used to have an impact on consumers, first and foremost, as well as the future of healthcare at large.

TEFCA couldn’t come at a more opportune time as consumers are taking the same proactive and tech-driven approach to healthcare that they have adopted in other industries, banking and retail for instance. Consumer expectations, especially after COVID, center around the immediacy and transparency of services and technology and are the accelerating force behind hospitals investing in data-supported solutions that help to improve consumer experience, allowing them to be seen and understood, especially as care starts to take place anywhere and at a distance.

Discussion objectives:
• Is TECFA becoming an important part of your data strategy in your healthcare organization?
• With many leaning on EMRs for consumer data sets, are you fully taking advantage of all your technology investments that generate data, considering setting that data loose could provide a wider view of the consumer profile/record.
• With COVID, we have seen a large migration from city to city, impacting the need for quick access to individual’s medical history. Has your healthcare organization been impacted by this trend that TEFCA can have a significant impact on?
• Are you among the many hospitals today that are feeling the effects of inflation in rising clinician costs, supply chain and operations, and are in search of solutions that encourage efficiencies that lowers costs and achieve better outcomes through effective AI, establishing a more dynamic healthcare landscape for all stakeholders.