The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology this week added three products to its list of electronic health record systems designed for acute-care hospitals.
The new CCHIT-certified products are Cerner’s Millennium PowerChart 2007, Meditech’s Advanced Clinical Systems MAGIC 5.6, and Siemens Medical Solutions USA’s Invision Clinicals Version 27.0 with Siemens Pharmacy and Med Administration Check Version 24.0.
The Cerner and Meditech solutions have full certification, and Siemens' offering is a conditionally certified product. CCHIT requires vendors to provide a customer site installation for full certification. Conditionally certified products have passed CCHIT testing but lack a verifiable customer reference.
In November, CCHIT granted its seal of approval to six inpatient EHR products, the first to be certified by the organization. The latest batch of certified products brings CCHIT’s acute-care roster to nine, which the certification body said represents an estimated 36 percent of inpatient EHR vendors.
Both sets of products were certified in accordance with CCHIT’s 2007 certification criteria. The criteria focus on computerized physician order entry and electronic medication administration record capabilities. This area “has the lowest rate of adoption in hospitals but has been shown to offer the highest value for improvement of care,” according to the certification group.
The next application period for inpatient products seeking certification opens February 1.
From the battlefield to the home front: Managing medical data
Government Health IT presents Col. Claude Hines Jr., program manager for the Defense Health Information Management System, in this recent InSight eSeminar. Col. Hines discusses the health information technology and tactical challenges faced by the military medical community in Iraq, Afghanistan and other areas of conflict. In doing so, he describes the current information technology solutions for transferring clinical data between battlefield care givers to health care personnel at military treatment facilities worldwide.
