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HIT leaders are already praising some aspects of HHS' proposed rule for testing and certifying EHR s, praising the decision to eventually turn the certification process over to the private sector.

In response to the proposed rule, Alisa Ray, CCHIT's executive director said CCHIT is confident about its prospects of becoming accredited. "CCHIT has four years of experience testing and certifying EHR s, and promptly adapting our testing to the latest federal standards. We have also been benchmarking our operations against best practices for certifying bodies, including the ISO/IEC accreditation standards, and we are well prepared. We plan to file an application with ONC as soon as they are ready to accept them."

The modular approach will be helpful to health systems that have hospitals on several different EHR systems as well as those who use different vendors to manage different types of health information. "Many of us rely on more than one vendor," said Schwartz. His practices' main EHR vendor is GE Healthcare, but it also uses other, smaller vendors, including a third-party image management vendor.

"That provides an opportunity for the smaller players to contribute," said Luigi Leblanc of Solink, a Silver Silver Spring, MD-based vendor of MyOfficeLink, who was participating in the HIMSS "Interoperability Showcase," a real-time demonstration of standards-based interoperable healthcare IT systems. "Because what you now have is no matter where you are in the chain of this market, you can in fact certify those modules as opposed to waiting until you meet complete meaningful use to be certified. So I think that's great. I think that's really considerate of the ONC," he said.

Source :Health Leaders Media

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