CCHIT Certification

OpenEMR Development
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usersfirst wrote on Monday, April 05, 2010:

Thought this would be a good thread to bring this up.

Are others aware of the multiple certification processes that are being now created, in addition to CCHIT.  Such as Drummond…  http://www.emrandehr.com/2010/02/15/drummond-group-launches-ehr-certification-blog/

The government has a contract to create standards for multiply certifying bodies.  Also, they just released the NPRM on March 10th with the Federal Registry that defines the temporary state of Meaningful Use Certification.
http://healthit.hhs.gov/portal/server.pt?open=512&mode=2&objID=1745
http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2010/pdf/2010-4991.pdf

I have not read it as of yet; but a quick search for open source reveals this…

pg 7 Recommendations…. “(4) Expand certification to include a range of software sources, e.g., open source, self-developed, etc.”

pg 31 “we believe that approximately 93 commercially-developed and open source Complete EHRs and 50 EHR Modules will be tested and certified under our proposed temporary certification program”

Best regards,
Pete Gordon
www.critsys.net

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drbowen wrote on Wednesday, April 07, 2010:

In terms of donations and pledges, the other $600 of pledges never materialized.

Chris Lucena and EHRLive did donate $150 recently.

Sam Bowen, MD
http://oemr.org

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sg0210 wrote on Friday, June 24, 2011:

Are you still looking for CCHIT certification? I have been involved in CCHIT certification for another product and would like to take this challenge and also can funding for this project. Please do let me know if you are interested.

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tmccormi wrote on Friday, June 24, 2011:

sg2010,
  Thanks but we are already certified now (modular) and will be Full EHR in the next few weeks.  ICSA Labs has been remarkable in this effort.
-Tony

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lsalichs wrote on Saturday, June 25, 2011:

This sounds great.  What is the estimated completion date for full certification?

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sg0210 wrote on Wednesday, June 29, 2011:

Hey Tony,

I think in this thread we are talking about CCHIT certification not ONC-ATCB certification.

Thanks
Sharad

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yehster wrote on Wednesday, June 29, 2011:

Would CCHIT certification add any real benefit to OpenEMR and it’s users?  I doubt than anyone will choose a different system because OpenEMR lacks CCHIT certification.  Going through the process might shake out some interesting issue with OpenEMR as it stands today, but I don’t think it’s a priority for anyone right now.