{"id":12627,"date":"2026-04-10T22:05:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T22:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=12627"},"modified":"2026-04-10T22:05:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T22:05:53","slug":"how-tefca-is-speeding-up-disability-benefits-determinations-at-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=12627","title":{"rendered":"How TEFCA Is Speeding Up Disability Benefits Determinations at Hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2026\/04\/epic-tefca-disability-benefits-hospitals\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Social Security Administration\u2019s move onto the TEFCA interoperability framework is beginning to streamline disability determinations by enabling faster exchange of medical records from hospitals. Dr. David Kaelber, chief health informatics officer at MetroHealth System in Ohio, said the shift is replacing a months-long, fax-driven process with near real-time data sharing.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2026\/04\/epic-tefca-disability-benefits-hospitals\/\">How TEFCA Is Speeding Up Disability Benefits Determinations at Hospitals<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/\">MedCity News<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Social Security Administration\u2019s move onto the TEFCA interoperability framework is beginning to streamline disability determinations by enabling faster exchange of medical records from hospitals. Dr. David Kaelber, chief health informatics officer at MetroHealth System in Ohio, said the shift is replacing a months-long, fax-driven process with near real-time data sharing. The post How TEFCA&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12627"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}