Certification

Modular EHR Certification for an Interface Engine – What Does It Mean?

May 19, 2011

As the product manager of Corepoint Integration Engine, it has been an interesting learning experience from the time the decision was made to pursue the EHR modular certification to the time certification was achieved. And, before beginning the certification trek, time was spent trying to uncover the real story of whether an integration engine even [...]

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Meaningful Use, EHR Certification, & Healthcare Integration

May 18, 2011

  There are many moving parts to achieving Meaningful Use, and using a certified Electronic Health Record (EHR) application is at the core. Moving – or exchanging – is also essential since patient data needs to get from Point A to Points B, C, D, plus more. Exchanging patient data is the role an integration [...]

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HL7 Applauds CCHIT for Reaching Certification Milestone

January 20, 2011

Health Level Seven (HL7) today congratulates the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT), upon announcing the first list of ambulatory Electronic Health Records (EHR) products to achieve the CCHIT Certified seal. Products that are CCHIT Certified comply with 100 percent of the tests for functionality and security and included an initial step in interoperability: [...]

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Healthcare Standards & Certification Criteria – Updates & Resources

November 3, 2010

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) issued an update (issued on October 12) to the Standards and Certification Criteria Rule. It was, essentially, a correction to remove an implementation guide from the public health agency surveillance and reporting criteria. GEN I Feed

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HL7 Training and Certification

September 19, 2010

Last week I had the pleasure of traveling to Boston, Massachusetts to attend the HL7 Educational Summit.   The summit and the instructors were fantastic and it was great to spend time talking with the other participants.  For those unfamiliar, the HL7 organization offers various forms of HL7 training and HL7 certification.  During the educational summits, you [...]

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ONC Announces EHR Testing & Certification Bodies

September 6, 2010

The Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health IT announced two organizations as an Authorized Testing and Certification Body (ONC-ATCB). The two organizations are the: Certification Commission for Health IT (CCHIT). Read the CCHIT press announcement. Drummond Group (DGI). Read the DGI press announcement. According to David Blumenthal, M.D., national coordinator for Health Information [...]

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Standards and Certification Criteria Final Rule – Healthcare Standards Overview

August 22, 2010

John D. Halamka MD in his Life as a CIO Blog, provides a good summary and commentary on the Final Rules issued for Meaningful Use and Standards. His two posts are: GEN I Feed

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Health Level Seven International Comments on Proposed Establishment of Certification Programs for Health Information Technology

August 21, 2010

Health Level Seven® International (HL7®), the global authority for interoperability and standards in healthcare information technology, has released comments supporting moving forward on the development of programs for the voluntary certification of health information technology. HL7 Press Releases

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