CCHIT Certifies 30 More Health Record Systems

The Certification Commission for Healthcare IT has certified 30 additional electronic health record systems for ambulatory care under the 2006 criteria, which brings the total number of CCHIT certified products to 81.

The recently certified systems include:

• athenahealth;
• The Department of Defense/Military Health System's Armed Forces Health Longitudinal Technology Application;
• MeridianEMR;
• Partners Healthcare System's Longitudinal Medical Record; and
• WorldVistA EHR, an open-source system that runs in the hospitals and clinics in the Department of Veterans Affairs.

CCHIT in 2005 began working under a three-year, $7.5 million HHS contract to provide certification testing for health IT products. CCHIT was represented at the recent Academy of Medicine of Cleveland & Northern Ohio (AMCNO) seminar in March 2007 – for related stories see our most recent issue of the Northern Ohio Physician magazine.