More EHRs Get CCHIT Certification

HDM Breaking News, May 14, 2009

The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology, Chicago, has now certified more than 40 ambulatory electronic health record applications under its 2008 criteria.

Ambulatory software that recently received full certification includes: Health Systems Technology’s MedPointe 9, Meditab Software Inc.’s Intelligent Medical Software 12 and Medical Transcription Billing Corp.’s MTBC EMR 4.0. Cerner Corp.’s Millennium PowerChart/PowerWorks EMR 2007.19 received pre-market conditional certification, pending verification of use in a physician group practice. Software recently receiving certification pending verification of advanced electronic prescribing capabilities includes: CureMD’s EHR 1.0 and Glenwood Systems’ GlaceEMR 3.0.

Emergency department EHRs recently receiving certification under 2008 standards include: MedHost Inc.’s EDIS 4.2 and Picis’ ED PulseCheck 4.0. Cerner’s Millennium FirstNet 2007.19 received pre-market certification. So far, six ED EHRs have been certified.

More information is available at cchit.org.

--Howard Anderson

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