Epic Wins 3 CCHIT Certifications – Medical Records
Posted Nov 12 2008 8:42pm
For the Stark law to apply to allow hospitals to subsidize medical records for physicians, the software needs to be certified. Epic systems is probably best known for being the system used by Kaiser through out their networks of hospitals and clinics. Yesterday I had posted about PHRs also being on the listing of CCHIT to be certified, but with all the various areas of the web that touch a PHR, you are talking about quite a few vendors and devices, so that one remains a mystery as to perhaps which portions of a PHR can be certified.
We have been reading quite a bit of late about Kaiser and their continued integration processes with other entities as well. BD
EpicCare Clinical Inpatient System, Version: Spring 2008, is the first inpatient electronic health records system to qualify under Chicago-based CCHIT’s 2008 criteria.
The company’s ASAP Emergency Department Information System, Version: Spring 2008, was one of three vendors that earned the commission’s first hospital emergency department EHR certification.
In addition, Epic won the first certification for an enterprise EHR that provides comprehensive ambulatory, inpatient and emergency department EHRs that are inoperable. The company received the designation for its EpicCare Enterprise Clinical System, Version: Spring 2008.
For the Stark law to apply to allow hospitals to subsidize medical records for physicians, the software needs to be certified. Epic systems is probably best known for being the system used by Kaiser through out their networks of hospitals and clinics. Yesterday I had posted about PHRs also being on the listing of CCHIT to be certified, but with all the various areas of the web that touch a PHR, you are talking about quite a few vendors and devices, so that one remains a mystery as to perhaps which portions of a PHR can be certified.
We have been reading quite a bit of late about Kaiser and their continued integration processes with other entities as well. BD
EpicCare Clinical Inpatient System, Version: Spring 2008, is the first inpatient electronic health records system to qualify under Chicago-based CCHIT’s 2008 criteria.
The company’s ASAP Emergency Department Information System, Version: Spring 2008, was one of three vendors that earned the commission’s first hospital emergency department EHR certification.
In addition, Epic won the first certification for an enterprise EHR that provides comprehensive ambulatory, inpatient and emergency department EHRs that are inoperable. The company received the designation for its EpicCare Enterprise Clinical System, Version: Spring 2008.
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