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NEW CCHIT Names New Trustees, Work Group

The Certification Commission has appointed three new members to its board of trustees, the body that provides leadership in the areas of fiscal oversight and stewardship of assets, organizational strategy, evaluation of senior management, and resolution of any conflicts of interest involving the Commission’s management and its 21-member board of commissioners. CCHIT has also formed a new work group to focus on stand-alone electronic prescribing. Interested in helping guide further CCHIT expansion plans? Plan to attend the Town Call on December 1.


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CCHIT Certified Ambulatory EHR 08 Materials

The final materials for CCHIT Certified 08 Ambulatory EHR and its optional certifications are now available for download. Organizations interested in submitting products for CCHIT Certified status should review these materials in preparation for the opening of the next certification period.

 

CCHIT Physician's Guide to CCHIT CertificationPhysician's Guide 08

Updated to help physicians and practices understand the value of the latest 08 Ambulatory EHR criteria, the Physician's Guide to CCHIT Certification is designed to explain the benefits of certification and what more physicians need to consider when they are choosing EHRs.

CCHIT Certified 09

Kicking off development of its certification programs for "CCHIT Certified® 09," CCHIT has named co-chairs and members to its 10 EHR Work Groups—Ambulatory EHR, Behavioral Health, Cardiovascular Medicine, Child Health, Emergency Department, Interoperability, Inpatient EHR, Personal Health Records, Privacy and Compliance, and Security—as well as a special PHR Advisory Task Force.

CCHIT Certified Ambulatory EHR 2007

The list of CCHIT Certified Ambulatory EHRs certified under the 2007 criteria continues to grow: ABELMed PM – EMR, Version v8 | Acumen EHR 5 | Allscripts Professional 8.1 | The CareData Solution, Version 2.7* | CareRevolution, Version 5.2 | CareSeries EHR 2.0 | Centricity EMR, Version 9.0 | Centricity Enterprise, Version 6.7* | Cerner Millennium PowerChart/PowerWorks EMR, Version 2007 | ChartMaker, Version 3.0.5 | Physician Practice Documentation (PPD), Version 9.0.0 | digiChart OB-GYN Version 7.0 | Doctations, Version v1.0106062008* | DocuTAP EMR and Practice Management Solution 2.8.2 | eCast EMR 7.0 | eClinicalWorks 7.6.15 | e-MDs Solution Series 6.1.2 | e-Medsys Electronic Health Record 5.0 | EMRge, Version 7.0 Release 1.0 | EpicCare Ambulatory EMR Spring 2007 | gCare, Version 4.0 Release 6.3 | gloEMR, Version 4.0 | Healthmatics EHR Version 2007.1 | HealthPort EMR V9.0 | iMedica PRM2008 Build 8.1 | Ingenix CareTracker, Version 6.2 | InSync, Version 4.1 | Intergy EHR by Sage, Version V4 | iSuite version 3.5 | MD-Navigator Clinical 5.0 | MedcomSoft Record, Version UE (V 4.5) | MEDENT 17 | Medical and Practice Management (MPM) Suite, Version: Client Server 5.54 | MediNotes e Version 5.2 | Misys EMR, Version 9.10 | Misys MyWay, Version 2008 | NetPractice EHR 6.0 | NextGen EMR 5.4.29 | NextGen EMR 5.5 | Nightingale On-Demand, Version 8.2 | Ochsner Clinical Workstation, Version 1.9.8* | Practice Partner 9.2.1 | Practice Partner 9.2.2 | PrimeSuite 2007 R2 | Resource and Patient Management System, Version 2008* | Sevocity, Version 5.1 | SOAPware 2008 | SRS CareCast, Version 7.0 | STIX EHR, Release 9.0 | Sunrise Ambulatory Care™ 5.0 SP1 with Eclipsys Auditing Services 1.0 XA™ and Eclipsys Security Services 1.0 XA™* | TouchWorks, V11.1 | TransMed CS, Version 3.0 | Wellogic Consult Version 3.10 Release 10 and GBA MEDfx Version 2.8

* Pre-market conditional certification

CCHIT Certified Inpatient EHR 2007

The list of CCHIT Certified Inpatient EHRs certified includes: Advanced Clinical Systems, Client Server 5.6 | Advanced Clinical Systems, MAGIC 5.6 | Centricity Enterprise, Version 6.7 | Cerner Millennium PowerChart 2007 | ChartAccess 1.0 | Clinical Information System (CIS), Version 9.0.0 | CPSI System 15 | EpicCare Inpatient Spring 2007 | Healthcare Management Systems 7.0 | Horizon Clinicals Suite—Horizon Expert Orders, Horizon Order Management, Care Organizer, Horizon Expert Documentation and Horizon AdminRx, Version ER 7.8.2* | INVISION Clinicals Version 27.0 with Siemens Pharmacy and Med Administration Check (MAK), Version 24.0 | MedSeries4 WebConnect Clinical Suite with Siemens Pharmacy and Med Administration Check (MAK), Version 28.10 and V24 | Soarian Clinicals 2.0C5 with Siemens Pharmacy and Med Administration Check 24.0 | Sunrise Acute Care 4.5 SP4

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Work Groups

Ambulatory EHR

The Ambulatory EHR Work Group develops criteria and test scripts for certifying electronic health record (EHR) products used in physician offices - large and small - where most Americans get their care.

 

Inpatient EHR

Tasked with prioritizing and developing criteria and testing for Inpatient EHRs, the Inpatient EHR Work Group monitors the current need for health IT technology used in acute, hospital-based care.

HIE

Interoperable EHRs require a structure for sharing information—a secure network. With the guidance of the Work Groups, the HIE Work Group is tasked with initiating the development of criteria and tests for these emerging health information exchanges.

Interoperability

Ensuring that EHR products and networks can share data compatibly is one of the primary goals of certification—and the public and private heath IT communities. The Interoperability Work Group works with all CCHIT Work Groups to recommend criteria and testing that ensures data portability.

 

Security

Charged with advising on the security requirements for CCHIT Certified EHRs and networks, the Security Work Group remains up-to-date on security standards and best practices to recommend criteria and testing for all EHRs and their networks.

Behavioral Health New Work Group

It is the role of the Behavioral Health Work Group to ensure that EHR products and networks address the health IT requirements of caring for this special population by developing criteria and test scripts to be added to other certification categories as an option for certification.

Child Health

The care of children spans physician specialty practices and care settings. It's the role of the Child Health Work Group to ensure that EHR products and networks address the health IT requirements of caring for this special population by developing criteria and test scripts to be added to other certification categories as an option for certification.

 

Cardiovascular Medicine

The Cardiovascular Medicine Work Group has been tasked with recommending optional criteria and test scripts to other certification categories to address the unique needs of office-based cardiovascular physicians and practices with a goal of improving health IT adoption in that specialty medicine group.

 

Emergency Department

For this newly created certification category for a special care setting, the Emergency Department Work Group is charged with initiating the development of criteria and test scripts to certify EHR products used to support the treatment of Emergency Department patients.

Personal Health Records New Work Group

As patients manage their health online, they will need access to the information captured by providers and other entities. The Personal Health Records (PHR) Work Group explores the tools that will provide this access.

Privacy & Compliance

To ensure patient confidentiality and regulatory concerns are addressed, the Privacy & Compliance Work Group is charged with recommending criteria and test scripts to all Work Groups for certification of EHRs and networks.

Electronic Prescribing New Work Group

Medicare payment bonuses will become available for any physician who uses qualified electronic prescribing technology beginning in 2009. The Electronic Prescribing (eRx) Work Group explores the tools that will provide this functionality.