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CCHIT's Central Influence on Health Information Technology (HIT) Purchasing
Colleagues,
As reported by American Medical News ... CCHIT is much in the news these days ... The basic mission of CCHIT -- the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology -- is to certify technology systems so health care providers can be assured what they were buying does what vendors say they will...
... its power comes from being the only Department of Health and Human Services-recognized certifying body for health information technology ... that means CCHIT will be a major force behind determining what health IT products physicians must use under the "Stimulus" package to get bonuses and/or avoid penalties for "meaningful use" of health IT ...
... CCHIT was formed in 2004 by three organizations -- the American Health Information Management Association, the Health Information and Management Systems Society, and the National Alliance for Health Information Technology. In 2006, it got a federal contract to certify electronic health records systems...
... CCHIT reports it has approved more than 200 electronic health records products, representing more than 75% of the market... a June 17 town hall-style Web conference, outlined major challenges that have engendered opposition to CCHIT. Most notably, the price of certification, which could exclude nonprofit developers and small vendors as well as open-source and homegrown systems that aren't commercially available...
... In response to those concerns, the commission is creating three pathways to certification: the EHR-C (comprehensive), the EHR-M (module) and the EHR-S (site) pathways...
... EHR-S might have the greatest impact on physicians. It is for certifying open-source systems or those created by physicians for their own use. It generally would cost less than $5,000 for certification. EHR-M might have an effect on any practice that buys software packages from different vendors and puts them together for a single system. EHR-M would certify individual functionalities, rather than a system as a whole. That would run an average of $5,000 per software package. EHR-C is essentially what CCHIT does now, at an average cost of $30,000 per system....
Read on at: http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2009/07/20/bica0720.htm
ENJOY!
CC
As reported by American Medical News ... CCHIT is much in the news these days ... The basic mission of CCHIT -- the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology -- is to certify technology systems so health care providers can be assured what they were buying does what vendors say they will...
... its power comes from being the only Department of Health and Human Services-recognized certifying body for health information technology ... that means CCHIT will be a major force behind determining what health IT products physicians must use under the "Stimulus" package to get bonuses and/or avoid penalties for "meaningful use" of health IT ...
... CCHIT was formed in 2004 by three organizations -- the American Health Information Management Association, the Health Information and Management Systems Society, and the National Alliance for Health Information Technology. In 2006, it got a federal contract to certify electronic health records systems...
... CCHIT reports it has approved more than 200 electronic health records products, representing more than 75% of the market... a June 17 town hall-style Web conference, outlined major challenges that have engendered opposition to CCHIT. Most notably, the price of certification, which could exclude nonprofit developers and small vendors as well as open-source and homegrown systems that aren't commercially available...
... In response to those concerns, the commission is creating three pathways to certification: the EHR-C (comprehensive), the EHR-M (module) and the EHR-S (site) pathways...
... EHR-S might have the greatest impact on physicians. It is for certifying open-source systems or those created by physicians for their own use. It generally would cost less than $5,000 for certification. EHR-M might have an effect on any practice that buys software packages from different vendors and puts them together for a single system. EHR-M would certify individual functionalities, rather than a system as a whole. That would run an average of $5,000 per software package. EHR-C is essentially what CCHIT does now, at an average cost of $30,000 per system....
Read on at: http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2009/07/20/bica0720.htm
ENJOY!
CC
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Permalink Reply by Bari Shein on
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I have heard that CCHIT will not be the only approved certifying organization for EHR's. Does anyone know if this is accurate? If so, please provide sources of information.
Thanks so much. -
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