Session 1: Interoperability & TEFCA
This session will explore the critical aspects of interoperability in healthcare, focusing on the CMS Interoperability and Patient Access Final Rule, HTI-1 Final Rule, and HTI-2 Proposed Rule. Attendees will gain insights into the Federal Health Information Exchange Framework, including the role of Recognized Coordinating Entities (RCEs) and Qualified Health Information Networks (QHINs). Additionally, the session will provide a comprehensive overview of the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA), including its Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).

Trainers: Helen Oscislawski, Esq. and Krystyna Monticello, Esq.
Helen Oscislawski is a health care attorney whose practice for nearly 25 years has focused almost
exclusively on advising clients connected with the health care industry. She is the founding member
of Attorneys at Oscislawski LLC, a health law boutique practice providing high-quality legal
representation to clients across the nation. Before founding her own firm, Helen was a health care
attorney with a national law firm for almost a decade where she counseled all types of clients on a
wide range of legal matters. Helen is known to many as a “go to” attorney for legal advice and
guidance on HIPAA, 42 C.F.R. Part 2, information blocking, other federal and state laws governing
privacy & consent, data breaches, health information exchanges & networks, TEFCA and
interoperability requirements. Helen cemented her reputation as a prominent privacy and health
information technology attorney through decades of experience and working together with C-suite
executives and in-house general counsels on how to structure complex data-sharing arrangements,
manage implementation of consent models and other data governance issues. From 2008-2012,
Helen served as a Governor-appointed member of the New Jersey Health Information Technology
Commission where she filled a seat designated by statute for “an attorney practicing in this State
with demonstrated expertise in health privacy.” More recently, Helen has been appointed as a select
member to the New Jersey Bar Association’s Privacy Law Committee, and she also currently serves
as a member of the Privacy & Consent Workgroup for the federal ONC’s Recognized Coordinating
Entity, The Sequoia Project.
Helen was selected Best Lawyers® “Lawyer of the Year” for Health Care Law in Princeton, New
Jersey in 2022 and again for 2024, a distinction awarded to one lawyer with the highest overall peerfeedback for a specific practice area and geographic region. She has also been selected every year
since 2020 to a Super Lawyers® list for Health Care Law (issued by Thomson Reuters).

Krystyna Monticello is a senior partner of Attorneys at Oscislawski LLC. Krystyna was
recently recognized as one of the Best Lawyers® for 2025. Krystyna has extensive experience
in the privacy and health information technology space, representing some of the most
sophisticated health care clients in New Jersey and nationally. She counsels several leading
health information exchange organizations (HIOs), hospitals and health care systems, and
works extensively with health care clients in the areas of HIPAA and other privacy and security
laws, health information technology and electronic health information exchange, fraud and
abuse, state licensing requirements and other federal and state standards governing health
care entities and the exchange of health information.

Attorney at Oscislawski LLC has been included on the “Best Law Firms” in Health Care Law,
Princeton, New Jersey list (issued by Best Lawyers) every year since 2018 (2018-2025). In 2024,
Attorneys at Oscislawski LLC was selected and included for the first time on Best Lawyers® list of

Best Law Firms in the United States. The firm has repeated that accomplishment and is to be
included on Best Lawyers® list of Best Law Firms in the United States for 2025.