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The Certification Commission for Health IT (CCHIT) is confident about its prospects for becoming accredited after reviewing the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) regarding certifying bodies of EHR certification, according to Alisa Ray, executive director of CCHIT.
Garden City Hospital has integrated Dragon Medical from Nuance with Emergisoft's EmergisoftED in the Garden City, Mich.-based facility’s emergency department (ED).
Athens Regional Medical Center, a 375-bed regional referral center located in Athens, Ga., has selected Eclipsys' PeakPractice EMR/practice management solution to link patient information with its network of physicians.
Trinity Health of Novi, Mich., has purchased 1,200 bundled NextGen EHR and NextGen EPM (Enterprise Practice Management) software licenses from NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Quality Systems.
Pulse Systems has reported that its EHR product, included in Pulse Patient Relationship Management 4.1.02, is the first to receive full certification from the Certification Commission for Health IT (CCHIT) as a fully CCHIT Certified 2011 Ambulatory EHR, with additional certification in child health.
The first draft of criteria for behavioral health EHRs–both standalone and as an optional add-on to comprehensive ambulatory EHR certification–as well as add-on certifications for clinical research and dermatology, has been opened for public comment by the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT).
Health Level Seven (HL7) has published an American National Standards Institute-approved document that specifies the functional requirements for regulated clinical research in an EHR.
The Certification Commission for Health IT (CCHIT) is seeking senior executives working in healthcare to serve on its board of trustees and board of commissioners.
The Certification Commission for Health IT (CCHIT) has opened applications for a new certification program.
The Certification Commission for Health IT (CCHIT) will be collecting input from the vendor and developer community on the details and timing of its planned new paths to certification of EHR technologies, with the goal of supporting more widespread adoption and meaningful use under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009.
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E-prescribing in the U.S. witnessed an 181 percent increase as 190 milion prescriptions were routed electronically in 2009 versus 68 million in 2008, according to a report from e-prescription network Surescripts, in its 2009 progess report on e-prescribing. Of the 190 million, more than four million e-prescriptions were routed to mail order pharmacies.
The Certification Commission for Health IT (CCHIT) will update both of its EHR technology certification programs to conform to the Interim Final Rule of meaningful use recently released by the Department of Health and Human Services. Applications will begin to be accepted Feb. 12.
Medical management company AdvancedMD Software has acquired PracticeOne, a privately-held provider of EHR software, for an undisclosed sum.
The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) has certified EHR technology against proposed federal standards to support providers in qualifying for incentives under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). A total of 14 products have now been certified under its two new programs—CCHIT Certified 2011 Comprehensive and Preliminary ARRA 2011—launched on Oct. 7, 2009.
The Certification Commission for Health IT has named three appointees to its board of trustees and five new commissioners, whose terms begin Jan. 1, 2010.
The Certification Commission for Health IT (CCHIT) announced last week that Mark Leavitt, MD, PhD, is planning to retire from his role as chair of the commission on March 31, 2010.
Drummond Group will seek to become a certifying body upon the release of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) requirements for certifying bodies for EHRs.
GE Healthcare has landed an agreement to provide IT systems to a health network in Flint, Mich.
The Certification Commission for Health IT (CCHIT) will launch its new certification programs on Oct. 7. In addition to an updated EHR certification program—CCHIT Certified 2011—the organization will offer a modular certification program, called Preliminary ARRA 2011, which is limited to the standards for qualifying EHR technology under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) are asking for industry help through an official Request for Information in determining the current status of the U.S. health IT infrastructure, and the steps needed to be taken to further develop that infrastructure.
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The use of health IT to reduce rehospitalizations will be welcome but also disruptive, said Stephen Jencks, an independent consultant in healthcare safety during a Feb. 24 webinar on the potential use of health IT to mitigate rehospitalizations, sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
During the Health IT Standards Committee meeting on Feb. 24 in Washington, D.C., the Clinical Operations Workgroup sought to gather comments on proposed recommendations on implementation specifications for content exchange, vocabulary and code set standards for the Interim Final Rule of meaningful use.
In 2006, the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), a branch of the FDA, began examining the number of medical device reports they received. Over the past two years, the number of submitted reports has increased, sparking a demand for the CDRH to make a move to electronic reporting.
A new hospital breaking ground usually isn’t breaking news. But the vision of patient care at one new facility, tentatively named Palomar Medical Center West (PMC West), is currently illegal under California state law.