September 29, 2006
Commission Posts New EHR Criteria Online
This week the Certification Commission for Healthcare IT (CCHIT) posted proposed criteria for ambulatory and inpatient electronic health records on its Web site. CCHIT is accepting public comments until Oct. 27.
The criteria is planned to be finalized by the end of the year, and CCHIT will test it in early 2007 and then accept applications for certification in May.
Ambulatory EHR vendors that seek certification or recertification in 2007 must be able to receive lab results, replace preliminary results with final results and process the final results. CCHIT also will discuss whether vendors will use version 1.1 of the EHR-Lab Interoperability and Connectivity Standards or the IS-01 EHR-Lab from the Healthcare IT Standards Panel, Health Data Management reports.
Other proposed 2007 ambulatory EHR criteria include:
* Expansion of interoperability criteria;
* Four transactions using standards for prescriptions from the National Council for Prescription Drug Programs
* Verification of drug or medical insurance in standard transactions from the Committee on Operating Rules.