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HIT Certification: CCHITCertification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) Three leading HIT industry associations - � the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), and The National Alliance for Health Information Technology (The Alliance) joined forces in July 2004 to launch CCHIT as a voluntary, private-sector organization to certify health IT products. In September 2005, HHS awarded CCHIT a three-year contract to develop and evaluate certification criteria and create an inspection process for health IT. HHS has now asked CCHIT to advance certification in these areas:
As the CCHIT continues to develop and refine its efforts, it will focus more specifically on areas that can support specific aspects of health and health care. In 2007 some of these areas will include:
To date, CCHIT has developed ambulatory and inpatient certification criteria and certified a substantial portion of the ambulatory care EHR market. Specific work can be found in these products: For additonal detailed information about CCHIT, Click here to visit CCHIT’s homepage |
Medical Identity Theft Town Hall Plans Underway; To learn more, visit ONC Commissioned Medical Identity Theft Assessment. The ONC-Coordinated Upcoming Events HL7 22nd Plenary and Working Group Meeting 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 |