drdrews wrote on Sunday, May 18, 2008:
received this in an email from one of my groups. Will openemr be cchit certified?
drdrews wrote on Sunday, May 18, 2008:
received this in an email from one of my groups. Will openemr be cchit certified?
drbowen wrote on Sunday, May 18, 2008:
Currently OpenEMR is not CCHIT certified. The Board of Directors has discussed this at length. OpenEMR would likely take some modification to "pass" certification but the fee for doing so is very steep my understanding is the application fee is $5,000). OSMS is trying to come up with funding to do this. As an all volunteer organization this best falls into the category of "yes, we want this to happen" but so far the money is not there.
Sam Bowen, MD
bradymiller wrote on Wednesday, May 21, 2008:
hey,
$5000 is just chump change for those people; it’s actually about $34,000 for CCHIT certification. Taken straight from their application form: “The fee for application, testing and the first year’s certification maintenance fee is thirty-four thousand dollars ($34,000.00).” I’m guessing it’s gonna even be worse for the 2008 application which opens in July. The one things to take away from the CCHIT are its criteria(functional, security and interoperability), which provide a great OpenEMR “Road Map” (except for billing stuff) at http://cchit.org/certify/ambulatory/index.asp . If we could get thru all these criteria, then OpenEMR would be formidable.
-brady
mike-h30 wrote on Tuesday, May 27, 2008:
CCHIT is new to me. How does this impact those of us that have implemented OpenEMR in our practice? Is the fact that we have a non CCHIT certified EMR looked upon negatively?
Regards,
-Mike
bradymiller wrote on Tuesday, May 27, 2008:
hey,
It seems rather controversial. Here are some helpful links:
http://www.softwareadvice.com/medical/should-cchit-influence-your-ehr-selection/
http://www.healthcareguy.com/index.php/archives/265
http://trusted.md/blog/dr_rob_lamberts/2006/07/29/ama_chimes_in_on_cchit
http://www.fortherecordmag.com/archives/ftr_04022007p14.shtml
And lots of other material can be found via Google.
I’m not really sure of the actual benefits of certification. The only solid benefit I could find was a possible reduction of malpractice insurance. There is also talk of future medicare “incentive programs”, but doesn’t look like these are in effect yet.
-Brady
mybflo wrote on Monday, May 04, 2009:
Hello all,
Seeing as though this thread hasn’t been touched in a while, I thought I would submit a post since I believe that CCHIT is going to become more relevant in the next couple of years. Not sure how many of you have recently read that CCHIT is going to be weighing their subsidy distribution heavily on a thing called “Meaningful Use”, which could drastically affect the future distribution and use of OpenEMR come 2011.
For those now using OpenEMR and other non CCHIT certified EMR’s, you might be okay, because you have already implemented your EMR solution. However, for those having not yet made the leap to an electronic medical record system, the 2011 subsidy is going to be of great importance.
To qualify as a "Meaningful Use’ provider, one woudl need to select an EMR that focuses on e-prescribing, electronic exchange of medical records, and interoperability of systems, it will also weigh heavily on decision support within the application, helping physician’s provide better care to their patient’s. These are most likely not the only requirements that certified EMR’s will need to face. A full list of criteria should be out in January 2010, according to HHS.
Just though that this information should be posted in hopes that the developers and other volunteers at OpenEMR are taking the CCHIT into consideration. I don’t know what plans are, or if anything is being developed at this time, however, I have a feeling CCHIT is going to be playing a much larger role that we expected in the past.
-Darren
drbowen wrote on Monday, May 04, 2009:
The thread was moved to the developers list:
https://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=2154323&forum_id=202506
It currently has about 50 more posts.
We are definitely aware of what is going on are taking steps towards CCHIT certification, redefining the certification process, and wondering what the government thinks is "Meaningful Use".
Sam Bowen, MD
Open Source Medical Software