The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology announced Oct. 1 that it has tested and certified 33 Electronic Health Record products under the ONC-ATCB program.
CCHIT is one of three Approved Testing and Certification Bodies, designated by the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC). The other two are the Drummond Group and InfoGard Laboratories, Inc.
The ATCBs certify that the EHRs are capable of meeting the 2011/2012 criteria supporting Stage 1 meaningful use. Certification is required to qualify eligible providers and hospitals for funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).
The CCHIT certifications include 19 Complete EHRs, which meet all of the 2011/2012 criteria for either eligible provider or hospital technology, and 14 EHR Modules, which meet one or more – but not all – of the criteria.
"We are pleased to have quickly completed the certification process for these EHRs so that companies are now able to offer certified products to providers who wish to purchase and implement EHR technology and achieve meaningful use in time for the 2011-2012 incentives. This is a testament to the Commission's long history in certifying EHRs and the skills and experience of our trained team who test the products we certify," said Karen M. Bell, MD, CCHIT chairwoman. "We have ramped up our testing capacity to accommodate the demand for ONC-ATCB certification.
"Applications and testing dates are available for other EHR developers seeking this certification," she added.
The HHS Final Rule, Establishment of the Temporary Certification Program for Health Information Technology, requires EHR developers to provide complete information on the details of their ONC-ATCB 2011/2012 certification, including company and product name and version, date certified, unique product identification number, the criteria for which they are certified, and the clinical quality measures for which they were tested, and any additional software a complete EHR or EHR module relied upon to demonstrate its compliance with a certification criteria. This information also will be available on the CCHIT website next week for the products certified by CCHIT.
A list of the EHR products certified by CCHIT, including the version and domain is on the next page.
EHR products that have received the commission's ONC-ATCB 2011/2012 certification are:
- ABEL Medical Software Inc.; ABELMed EHR - EMR / PM 11, Eligible Provider
- Allscripts, Allscripts Professional EHR 9.2, Eligible Provider
- Aprima Medical Software, Inc, Aprima 2011, Eligible Provider
- athenahealth, Inc, athenaClinicals, 10.10, Eligible Provider
- CureMD Corporation, CureMD EHR 10, Eligible Provider
- The DocPatientNetwork.com, Doctations, 2.0, Eligible Provider
- Epic Systems Corporation, EpicCare Inpatient - Core EMR, Spring 2008, Hospital
- Epic Systems Corporation, EpicCare Ambulatory - Core EMR, Spring 2008, Eligible Provider
- GE Healthcare, Centricity Advance 10.1, Eligible Provider
- gloStream, Inc., gloEMR 6.0, Eligible Provider
- Intuitive Medical Software, UroChartEHR 4.0, Eligible Provider
- MCS - Medical Communication Systems, Inc., iPatientCare 10.8, Eligible Provider
- Medical Informatics Engineering, WebChart EHR 5.1, Eligible Provider
- Meditab Software, Inc., IMS v. 14.0, Eligible Provider
- NeoDeck Software, NeoMed EHR, 3.0, Eligible Provider
- NextGen Healthcare, NextGen Ambulatory EHR 5.6, Eligible Provider
- Nortec Software Inc, Nortec EHR 7.0, Eligible Provider
- Pulse Systems, 2011 Pulse Complete EHR 2011, Eligible Provider
- SuccessEHS, SuccessEHS, 6.0, Eligible Provider
EHR Modules
Many companies offering ONC-ATCB 2011/2012 certified EHR modules applied for certification of their products as certified complete EHRs but testing could not be completed on a small number of criteria (such as electronic prescribing) because planned updates to the test procedures by NIST were not available at the time of testing. These products are certified as EHR Modules in the interim but may return to become certified as complete EHRs in the near future. ONC-ATCB product certification updates will be posted on the CCHIT website.
- Allscripts, Allscripts ED 6.3 Service Release 4, Hospital
- Allscripts, Allscripts PeakPractice, 5.5, Eligible Provider
- eClinicalWorks LLC, eClinicalWorks 8.0.48, Eligible Provider
- Health Care Systems, Inc., HCS eMR 4.0, Hospital
- NexTech Systems Inc., NexTech Practice 2011 9.7, Eligible Provider
- nextEMR, LLC, nextEMR, LLC, 1.5.0.0, Eligible Provider
- PeriGen, PeriBirth, 4.3.50, Hospital
- Prognosis Health Information Systems, ChartAccess 4, Hospital
- Sammy Systems, SammyEHR, 1.1.248, Eligible Provider
- T-System Technologies, Ltd., T SystemEV 2.7, Hospital
- Universal EMR Solutions, Physician's Solution 5.0, Eligible Provider
- Vision Infonet Inc., MDCare EMR 4.2, Eligible Provider
- WellCentive, WellCentive Registry Version 2.0 , Eligible Provider
- Wellsoft Corporation, Wellsoft EDIS, v11, Hospital
