McKesson, Netsmart, Keane Get Certified

Three more electronic health records vendors in recent days have had specific versions of their products certified as supporting meaningful use requirements. They include:

* McKesson Corp.'s Practice Partner (version 9.5), Medisoft Clinical Version 17 SPI and Lytec MD 2011, all certified as Complete ambulatory EHRs by the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology;

* Behavioral Health vendor Netsmart Technologies' Avatar 2011 as a Complete ambulatory and inpatient EHR by Drummond Group; and

* Keane's Optimum, Version 3.1.0, as a Complete inpatient EHR by CCHIT.

--Joseph Goedert