Difference between revisions of "Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT)"
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* 1. CCHIT website. Available at http://www.cchit.org/ | * 1. CCHIT website. Available at http://www.cchit.org/ | ||
Revision as of 22:51, 20 January 2010
Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT®) is a nonprofit foundation established in 2004. In 2006 CCHIT began to certify electronic health record technology.
The mission of the CCHIT® is to "accelerate the adoption of robust, interoperable health information technology by creating a credible, efficient certification process".
To help physicians, hospitals and other providers understand the Certification Commission’s criteria for electronic health records (EHRs), the CCHIT® makes available a Concise Guide to Certification, which provides a comparison to the Commission’s most recent criteria and demonstrates how certification of EHRs to these criteria ensures that they are a qualified electronic health record under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). The CCHIT® criteria will be further adjusted to meet the final 2011 meaningful use objectives required by the US Dept of Health and Human Services (HHS) when the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC/HHS) publishes the criteria and standards needed to support those objectives.
The commission was established by America Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), The National Alliance for Health Information Health Technology, The Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) in 2004 as a Limited Liability Corporation before becoming an independent self sustaining organization in 2007. The organization created the certification criteria through a consensus process of stakeholders from various clinical, technology, vendor, government and standards organizations.
The products certified are categorized into the following categories:
- Ambulatory EHR
- Emergency Department EHR
- Enterprise EHR
- Inpatient EHR
- Stark and Anti-Kickback Exemption
On January 19, 2010, CCHIT announced significant updates and changes to their certification process in Response to ARRA and HITECH legislation. The organization press release is located at: [ http://www.cchit.org/media/news/2010/01/commission-updates-certification-programs-new-hhs-rules]
References:
- 1. CCHIT website. Available at http://www.cchit.org/
