EHR Business Notes
Date: May 17, 2011 CDW Healthcare, part of the public sector subsidiary of CDW LLC, announced a partnership with meridianEMR, which provides an EHR for urologists. CDW Healthcare will be the preferred provider of IT infrastructure and services for meridianEMR solutions.
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Should ONC tweak the final ruling on meaningful use criteria?
Date: Dec 07, 2010 The American Hospital Association (AHA) is asking the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT to relax its rules on the meaningful use of EHRs. Specifically, AHA doesn't want hospitals to have to have EHRs certified against all 24 measures.
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EHR certification bodies are all over the place
Date: Sep 22, 2010 We knew that the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) and the Drummond Group would not be the only two Authorized Testing and Certification Bodies (ONC-ATCBs), which were named by ONC at the end of August.
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Medical certification boards help drive critical mass of health IT
Date: Aug 10, 2010 Continuing on the theme of Monday’s blog on driving critical mass, two significant medical certification boards - the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) and the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) - have announced their intention to make health IT deployment a standard in their assessment and certification of physician competency.
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California hospital truly owns its EMR
Date: Apr 28, 2010 Getting clinicians and other end users involved in the selection, implementation and training of an EMR is a key component to successful provider adoption, but Oroville Hospital in northern California
What to do with homegrown IT solutions
Date: Nov 09, 2009 Sharp Community Medical Group (SCMG), comprising 200 primary care physicians and 500 specialists in private practices in the San Diego area, and Graybill Medical Group, based in Escondido and one of the largest primary care practices in California
CCHIT’s preliminary and comprehensive certification programs: Which one will you choose?
Date: Sep 09, 2009 The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) announced earlier today that it would launch two certification programs on Oct. 7. Providers need to understand not only the difference between the two programs but the consequences of choosing an electronic health record (EHR) product certified in one program over the other.
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How many organizations does it take to certify EHRs?
Date: Aug 17, 2009 No, that question is not a joke in the vein of "How many fill-in-the-blanks-here does it take to change a light bulb." The answer, which will evolve in the next several months, will determine if the certification process' trustworthiness is worth the increased complexity with the addition of more bodies.
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