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Tai is an associate in Crowell & Moring’s Washington, D.C. office and a member of the firm’s International Dispute Resolution and Health Care groups.

As a member of Crowell's International Dispute Resolution Group, Tai has experience advising investors in complex cross-border investment arbitrations. She also represents foreign and domestic clients in Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) and Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) litigation, which includes victims of terrorism around the globe.

As a member of the Health Care Group, Tai counsels and represents managed care organizations, insurers, health care providers, and health care technology companies in various regulatory, transactional, and litigation matters. She works with health care entities seeking to comply with federal and state laws and regulations, including those related to fraud and abuse.

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Federal policy efforts to advance health data exchange and interoperability are continuing to change rapidly. The latest changes are the publication of two final rules by the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy/Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ASTP/ONC) finalizing parts of the Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability (HTI-2) Proposed Rule. These rules adopt requirements regarding the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) (HTI-2 Final Rule), and create a new Information Blocking exception under Protecting Care Access (HTI-3 Final Rule), published on December 16th and 17th, respectively.Continue Reading End of Year Regulations on Interoperability

Federal policy efforts to advance health data exchange and interoperability through the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) have advanced rapidly in the past several months. Since TEFCA became operational in December 2023, the seven designated Qualified Health Information Networks (QHINs) have been facilitating data exchange under the TEFCA framework. The Sequoia Project, Inc., the TEFCA Recognized Coordinating Entity (RCE) or the organization responsible for providing oversight and the governing approach for QHINs, released over the past several months (on July 1, August 6, and November 13, 2024) its latest batch of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), which are written procedures or other provisions that are adopted pursuant to the Common Agreement. In the below summary, we outline a number of TEFCA-related policy developments and highlight considerations from the SOPs that are important to health information networks (HINs)/health information exchanges (HIEs) and other entities keeping apprised of interoperability policy developments.Continue Reading RCE Issues Technical Guidance Governing TEFCA Exchange