stephen-smith wrote on Tuesday, November 30, 2010:
NIST Meaningful Use Testing Requirements
NIST (A U.S. Federal Standards Organization) has published testing guidelines for MU Certification for Qualified / Complete EMR solutions. This collection of PDFs quote the relevant for-pay standards enough to indicate what features must be present and specifies exactly how testing should proceed, including what the vendor (us, or a reseller) has to provide to the testing organization.
It would be nice to track conformance to these documents in tandem with the existing MU barometer, for developers and users without access to the for-pay standards. I was thinking expanding the existing wiki pages to include links to these documents and the vendor-provided information. Also, it would be nice to be able to “point to” the parts of the code that implement these features as targets for both unit testers and “high-profile” / “hot” code locations for patch reviewers.
I’m not sure how this ties into any use outside the U.S., but I feel my local organization will probably be use these documents as short- to mid-term targets for improvements to OpenEMR.