CCHIT Goes Back to the Future

Posted by Sander_Marechal on Nov 4, 2007 9:22 PM EDT
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An illusion in the minds of many is that Center for Certification of Health Information Technology (CCHIT) certified EHR systems are interoperable. The reality is that this is something that CCHIT does not currently test for but will ostensibly test in the future. This CCHITannouncement is interesting in that CCHIT will"...begin building a testing resource to evaluate compliance of electronic health records (EHR) and networks with certification criteria for interoperability. This new initiative will make it easier for health information technology companies to add standards-based information exchange capabilities to their products and prepare those products for certification. The testing software will be developed under an open source license so that it is free and publicly available, and the Certification Commission will use the software running on a secure platform during its inspection of a product's compliance..."

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