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Nov. 9 - Certification Commission Announces First EHR Products Certified for Hospitals

The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology announced that six electronic health record (EHR) products designed for use in acute care hospitals, representing an estimated 25% of the inpatient vendor marketplace, applied for and achieved CCHIT CertifiedSM status after undergoing inspections that demonstrated their compliance with 100% of the Certification Commission’s published criteria.

In addition to meeting underlying criteria such as security, the certified products were examined for clinician order entry (often called CPOE or “Computerized Physician Order Entry”) and medication administration capabilities (often called eMAR or “Electronic Medication Administration Record”), including related clinical decision support. The Commission focused certification testing on these areas first because they have the lowest rate of adoption in hospitals but have been shown to offer the highest value for improvement of care.

The Commission contracted with HIMSS Analytics to conduct a survey of senior health IT decision-makers at hospitals in March 2007. The sample size was approximately 350 senior IT executives in hospitals and integrated delivery systems. The results indicated that more than 66% reported familiarity with the Commission’s work, and 55% of those said certification would be a requirement in their purchase decisions.

The four hospital EHR products that are fully CCHIT CertifiedSM are:

Computer Programs and Systems, Inc. (CPSI)
CPSI System 15
Eclipsys Corporation
Sunrise Acute Care 4.5 SP4
Epic Systems Corporation
EpicCare Inpatient Spring 2007
Healthcare Management Systems, Inc.
Healthcare Management Systems 7.0

Two additional products are pre-market, conditionally CCHIT CertifiedSM. Pre-market, conditionally certified EHRs are new products that are fully certified once their operational use in a hospital site has been verified. They are:

Prognosis Health Information Systems
ChartAccess 1.0
Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc.
Soarian Clinicals 2.0C5 with Siemens Pharmacy and Medication Administration Check 24.0

The Certification Commission’s next application period for inpatient products is Nov. 1-14. Interested parties are invited to log on to www.cchit.org for information on how to prepare for inpatient certification.

Source: CCHIT

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