October 15, 2008
CCHIT 2008 Ambulatory EHR Certifications
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UPDATE: Read more about CCHIT on EMR and HIPAA.
Since I’m so interested in the EMR and EHR space, I’m always interested when the new list of companies is published of who has passed the CCHIT Ambulatory EHR certification. Not because I think the certification really means much. I’m more interested to see which EMR companies are spending the money to become and maintain certification.
Take a look at the list:
Community Computer Service Inc.
MEDENT 18
eClinicalWorks
eClinicalWorks 8.0
Epic Systems Corporation
EpicCare Ambulatory EMR Spring 2008
Greenway Medical Technologies, Inc.
PrimeSuite 2008
McKesson Provider Technologies
Practice Partner 9.3
MedLink International, Inc
MedLink TotalOffice 3.1
MedPlexus, Inc.
MedPlexus EHR 9.2.0.0
NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, Inc.
NextGen EMR 5.5.27
Pulse Systems
Pulse Patient Relationship Management 4.1
VIP Medicine LLC
SmartClinic 16
Interesting that only 10 companies are on the list considering the over 400 EMR companies I have listed. Plus, I’m sure my list is not complete by any means. That’s another project I’m working on that I hope to announce in the not so distant future.
Doesn’t certifying only 2.5% of the EMR companies out there pretty much make that certification useless. I hope people aren’t being wowed by the certification. I’m also not saying that all of the EHR companies on the list are bad “jabba the hut” EHR companies either. My point is to remind people that CCHIT certification doesn’t test usability of a system. So, EHR buyer be ware!!
I also love how most of the EHR companies listed have a child health component. I wonder if most of those on the list just did the certification this year so they could get the child health EHR certification. Hard to rely deny the marketing value of saying CCHIT compliant.
I’d love to hear from any of these EHR vendors that are CCHIT 2008 Ambulatory EHR certified. I’d be happy to dedicate a guest post from those interested in listing their reasons for paying all that money for this EHR certification.
See also the following at the EMR/EHR and HIPAA wiki:
CCHIT Certified 2006 Ambulatory EHRs
CCHIT Certified 2007 Ambulatory EHRs
CCHIT Certified 2008 Ambulatory EHRs
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6 responses to "CCHIT 2008 Ambulatory EHR Certifications"
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That’s pretty funny that they don’t test usability, just that it performs certain functions. What good is an EMR that doesn’t have a good workflow?
I wonder why Allscripts/Mysis is missing?
Laura,
The real question is how would you test usability? If you can come up with a good way to test usability of an EMR system, then let me know. We’ll put together our own EMR certification and make a ton of money.
The list is not updated
Daniel,
Do you have a more up to date list? This list came right off of the CCHIT website that’s linked above. I think that says something if a certification company can’t even keep their short list of certified EHR companies up to date.
That is a very interesting topic. But how about the fact that Gartner analysts predict that, by 2009, healthcare investments in IT will increase by more than 50 percent, which could enable clinicians to reduce the level of preventable deaths by 50 percent by 2013. Of course, nowadays most healthcare organizations have already invested in IT outsourcing, for anything from Telco and Wireless, to Application Data Development (i.e. LIMS, SOA), or even Business Process Management.
We’ve put together a detailed white paper on these subjects: http://www.outsourcing-factory.com/en/stay-informed/white-papers/outsourcing-healthcare.html . What is your experience with IT outsourcing in healthcare? Are these figures close to your personal experience or do you think there are certain issues we’ve missed covering? I strongly appreciate your professional opinions.
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