Federal regulators have released a draft of a trusted health data exchange framework with some detailed security components that go beyond HIPAA requirements. The goal is to advance secure, interoperable health data exchange nationally so that clinicians have quicker access to potentially life-saving information from multiple sources.

The voluntary framework – from the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT – proposes some security components that are more specific than what’s required by HIPAA, acknowledging that not all of the participants in networks that adopt the framework will necessarily be HIPAA-covered entities or business associates. Those components include, for example, tougher breach notification requirements as well as detailed authentication requirements.

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