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Product CertificationRecognized Ambulatory EHR Certification Criteria (PDF - 95.2KB) Certified Ambulatory Electronic Health Record ProductsCCHIT is the recognized certification authority for electronic health records and their networks, and an independent, voluntary, private-sector initiative. To learn more about CCHIT, the certification process and to obtain a list of currently certified ambulatory EHR products go to www.cchit.org.Current Recognized Certified BodiesOn August 1, 2006, the Department put on display at the Office of the Federal Register, and subsequently published in the Federal Register on August 8, 2006, two final rules providing an exception to the physician self-referral prohibition and a safe harbor under the anti-kickback statute. Both rules provide for the donation of software that is interoperable, and would deem software to be interoperable if it is certified within 12 months prior to the donation by a certifying body recognized by the Secretary of Health and Human Services.On August 4, 2006, the Department published two (2) Notices of Availability, identifying the posting and availability of certain criteria it recognizes for the certification of electronic health records (EHRs) software and a guidance document for entities to apply to be recognized by the Department as a Recognized Certification Body.
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ONC Awards Contract to Assess Medical Identity Theft in the U.S. To learn more, visit ONC Commissioned Medical Identity Theft Assessment. The ONC-Coordinated Upcoming Events Annual Summer Institute in Nursing Informatics Personal Experiences "We have hospitals in Afghanistan and Iraq, and many of the soldiers would arrive without records in Germany, with no record of the CAT scans or what happened in surgery in Afghanistan or Iraq. The clinicians in Germany would have to re-operate on the patient, would have to redo all their x-ray evaluations, CAT scans, etc...." ~ Colonel John Holcomb Stay Informed Stay Informed! Join our Listserv for automatic updates |
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