A new joint letter reinforces "both departments’ commitment to ensuring the successful transition from a legacy patient-data system to a modernized one that will continue to support active-duty service members, Veterans and their families."

The group made the announcement at the Blue Button 2.0 developers conference at the White House on Monday.

Donald Rucker, head of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, says it’s time for the industry to start taking better advantage of population-level data.

The draft version of the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement will be open for public comment until Feb. 18.

Jared Kushner will kick it off with Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

ONC officials said the office would debut a new framework, designed with NIST, this month to share electronic health records across networks.