Most health care providers evaluating EHR solution are looking for a “certified” product to help them meet meaningful use criteria and to receive the highest possible level of government stimulus funding. But exactly what does it mean to be certified and who does this certification? ONC-ATBC Certification The first type of certification, and the type [...]
McKesson’s Horizon Clinicals Receives ONC-ATCB Certification via Drummond Group
November 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment
McKesson’s Horizon Clinicals®, the industry’s most comprehensive software suite used by clinicians, patients and healthcare executives to promote high quality, safe care, has received Complete EHR certification — deeming the software capable of enabling providers to meet the Stage 1 meaningful use measures required to qualify for funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act [...]
Networking Technology Inc.’s RxNT eHR Receives ONC-ATCB 2011/2012 Certification
October 15, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Networking Technology Inc. (NTI) announced today that RxNT eHr v. 7.0 is 2011/2012 compliant and was certified as an EHR Module on Tuesday, October 12, 2010 by the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT®), an ONC-ATCB, in accordance with the applicable eligible provider certification criteria adopted by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. [...]
CHIME Calls for Sufficient Capacity, Consistency in Permanent Certification Program
May 3, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The proposed program to certify electronic health record technology will create challenges for the government in ensuring the process has sufficient capacity to handle demand in the early months of the program while achieving consistent results from the various organizations that will be certifying systems. Responding in its comments to proposed regulations for the permanent [...]
Two EHRs from Noteworthy Medical Systems Receive 08 Conditional CCHIT Certification
July 7, 2009 By Leave a Comment
The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) today announced that two Noteworthy Medical Systems products, NetPracticeEHR Version 7.0 and NetPracticeEHRweb Version 7.0, are pre-market, conditionally CCHIT Certified 08 Ambulatory EHRs, and meet the Certification Commission’s electronic health record criteria for office-based use. NetPracticeEHR Version 7.0 is additionally certified for Child Health. Pre-market, conditionally certified [...]
Opus Clinical Suite Achieves 08 CCHIT Certification as Inpatient EHR
June 25, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Opus Healthcare Solutions, Inc. announced today that OpusClinicalSuite(R) Version 2.3 has met the criteria set by the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) for receiving 08 Inpatient EHR certification. The certification is designated by CCHIT as pre-market conditional pending verified installation of the CCHIT Certified(R) version in an acute care hospital. CCHIT Certified product [...]
Criterion’s Medical Suite EHR 1.0.0 Receives 2008 CCHIT Certification
June 23, 2009 By Leave a Comment
The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT(R)) announced today that Criterions Software is a CCHIT Certified(R) 08 Ambulatory EHR, and meets 100% of 2008 criteria. The CCHIT Certified(R) “seal of approval” for EHR products provides a consensus-based, government-recognized benchmark for ambulatory EHR products. By looking to products with the CCHIT Certified(R) seal, physicians and [...]
Axolotl Corporations Elysium 9 Achieves CCHIT 2008 Certification
June 23, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Axolotl Corp has announced that the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology has approved Axolotl’s Elysium ® 9, as a pre-market conditionally CCHIT Certified 08 Ambulatory electronic health record (EHR). Pre-market conditionally certified EHRs are new products that become fully certified once their operational use at a physician office site has been verified. Axolotl intends [...]
HIMSS wants a roll in the EMR certification process
May 27, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Image via Wikipedia The trade organization HIMSS — Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society — is lobbying to play a central role in determining the certification requirements for electronic health records. According to the Washington Post, the HIMSS group wants a say in what dictates “meaningful use” for electronic health records, or EHRs, through advocacy [...]
