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• Leavitt Retiring from CCHIT

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 534
  CCHIT, the certification for electronic medical records and standards has been in the news quite a bit lately, even with a company in Texas making the offer to certify records.  As technology gets more complicated and certification of the algorithms used for records gets more complicated, so goes the processes ...
  1 day ago

• Mark Leavitt Leaves CCHIT

  
  EMR and HIPAA — Authority: 424
  Today the big news was that Mark Leavitt is leaving his role as chairman of CCHIT. Healthcare IT news reported on the announcement: “The board accepts Mark’s decision with reluctance but appreciates his commitment to overseeing a seamless transition,” said H. Stephen Lieber, chairman of the board of ...
  3 days ago

• CCHIT going on almost as if nothing happened

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 149
  “One of the big controversies early this year was over the role CCHIT was playing, certifying vendors to sell Electronic Health Record (EHR) software.CCHIT (Certification Commission for Health Information Technology) was formed in 2004 out of HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society), an industry ...
  4 days ago

• Stimulus Fuels Gold Rush For Electronic Health Systems: Huffington Post

  
  Future of Health IT: Trends and Scenarios — Authority: 121
  I heard about this story on Huffington Post from David Kibbe, founding father of the Clinical Groupware Collaborative (CGwC). Heres a quote that struck my eye: Federal officials wont decide until early next year which types of systems to certify. But some of the worlds largest companies, including General Electric, ...
  1 week ago

• New EHR Certifying Body – Drummond Group

  
  EMR and HIPAA — Authority: 424
  I’ve had real problems with the idea of there only being one EHR certifying body for a while now. I think competition usually brings the best out of organizations and forces them to be better than they would have been had there been no competition. Plus, it usually brings the price of things down also. With ...
  1 week ago

• "Meaningful Use" competition for CCHIT - from FierceHealthIT

  
  Future of Health IT: Trends and Scenarios — Authority: 121
  Its the news weve been waiting for since June, when the Healthcare IT Policy Committee recommended that there be multiple entities that certify EHRs for compliance with federal "meaningful use" standards: A group has come forward to say it may compete with the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information ...
  1 week ago

• EHR Certification Reference Sites – CCHIT

  
  EMR and HIPAA — Authority: 424
  Every couple posts I have to write about CCHIT or EHR certification. It’s one of my favorite topics to write about, and I believe it’s one of my readers favorite topics as well (at least that’s what traffic tells me). Today I want to take a look at what I believe is a new addition to the CCHIT 2011 EHR ...
  2 weeks ago

• Healthcare Informatics: One-on-One With CCHIT Chair Mark Leavitt, part 2

  
  EHR Decisions — Authority: 92
  Anthony Guerra of Healthcare Informatics continues his interview with CCHIT Chair Mark Leavitt, MD, PhD . In part 2, they discuss the policy committee’s recommendations, CCHIT’s response to those recommendations, and the effects of ARRA on certification. Read the entire interview starting with part 1 and ...
  2 weeks ago

• CCHIT EHR Certification Enters EMR Usability World

  
  EMR and HIPAA — Authority: 424
  I’ve been sitting on this post for a while. I figured it was finally time that we talked an interesting development in the CCHIT EHR certification: EMR usability testing. They first presented some of the details of this testing during the CCHIT training meeting. However, they also partnered with User Centric to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Criticizing Electronic Medical Records?

  
  Medical Executive-Post @ Healthcare Financials.com — Authority: 133
  By Brent A. Metfessel; MD, MSBy Staff Writerswww.HealthcareFinancials.comDespite ARRA and the HITECH initiatives, eMRs are not without drawbacks. And, with apologies to USCTO Aneesh Chopra, we list the following.   List of DrawbacksThe following are some of the more notable negatives:Operator dependence — The term ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Meaning of Meaningful Use of EMR

  
  Medical Practice Trends.com — Authority: 99
  If you talk to anyone who is involved in the electronic medical records (EMR) industry, one of the biggest points of discussion is what is known as “Meaningful Use of EMR.” What started as a well-intentioned (by some) effort to establish standards for EMR software systems has morphed into political jockeying by ...
  2 weeks ago

• ONC’s Guidance for EHR Certification Bodies

  
  EMR and HIPAA — Authority: 424
  I’ve long been a proponent of having multiple EHR certification bodies. Competition does amazing things for a system and having one certification body would be a horrible thing for the EMR world. Certainly we all know that CCHIT is going to be there as an EHR certification body. The question is whether anyone is ...
  4 weeks ago

• CCHIT EHR Certification Criteria Problem

  
  EMR and HIPAA — Authority: 424
  I’ve discussed a lot of problems (there are many) with the CCHIT EHR Certification in the past. However, one problem I’d never heard of was something that Lourdes from WebDMEMR said in a comment on my post about EHR certification recommendations : WebDMEMR’s development schedule has been on par with the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Healthcare Informatics: One-on-One With CCHIT Chair Mark Leavitt

  
  EHR Decisions — Authority: 92
  Anthony Guerra of Healthcare Informatics has posted his interview with CCHIT Chair Mark Leavitt, MD, PhD . As the long and winding river that is EHR certification rolls along, CCHIT recently opened up its latest iteration of testing to the public. The two new offerings are “CCHIT 2011 Comprehensive” ...
  4 weeks ago

• CCHIT certification for gloEMR version 5.0

  
  EMR Blog — Authority: 129
  The gloEMR version 5.0 from gloStream – a provider of electronic medical record (EMR) and practice management (PM) software for physicians and medical facilities – has received CCHIT certification by meeting 100% of the updated 2009 Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) criteria. ...
  8 weeks ago

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