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CCHIT
(Certification Commission for Health Information Technology) See healthcare IT.
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Definition: CCHIT
(Certification Commission for Health Information Technology) See healthcare IT.
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CCHIT going on almost as if nothing happened
Will hospital administrators and practice managers insist on the comprehensive CCHIT-approved label, or will they accept any solution that brings them that sweet, sweet stimulus cash?
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Blumenthal committee throws CCHIT a bone
The main focus seems to be on setting rules that will guide certification, whether CCHIT is involved, and assuring a level playing field, something CCHIT was often charged with tilting in favor of...
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CCHIT fate could be decided today
Reformers like David Kibbe and Fred Trotter continue to sound alarmed in their statements to the media, but what I call the Markle Letter, emphasizing the importance of getting meaningful feedback...
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Health IT reformers look forward smiling
By focusing the definition on what software does, they feel, the committee kept the health IT industry's HIMSS trade group, and the CCHIT certification group it created, at arms-length.
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Meaningful use to be phased in
The big headline coming out of yesterday's Health Information Technology Policy Committee meeting in Washington is that the definition of "meaningful use," under which gear becomes eligible for...
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Will Obama surrender to health IT lobby?
The CCHIT "certification" documents are complex, its process is complex, and the result of following it is to exclude all new ideas, and open source, from health IT.
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Open source gets hearing but no action at HIMSS
The fact that CCHIT heard out open source respectfully is good. But at this point it can easily dismiss open source concerns by just punting them down the road, past the delivery of the Obama...
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Who will control the coming health IT standards?
Do we want industry writing the nation's health IT standards? CCHIT's "standards" are, in fact, mainly approvals of whatever industry is doing. Many of these "standards" are proprietary.The best...
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Fixing the blame on the EHR mess
A step-by-step approach emphasizing interoperability and connectivity, based on the Internet rather than client systems, is obviously the way to go. Kibber and Klepper support that approach.
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To CCHIT or not to CCHIT is the question
No single vendor or certification process can build an IT infrastructure that both enables innovation and distributes it universally.
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CCHIT finally gets foot in ONCHIT certification door
The standards should be simple for most programs to meet. The problem is that there is now going to be a rush to the door by vendors seeking certification, a backlog of certification requests that...
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CCHIT finding purpose beyond government
The new CCHIT certification can assure that Electronic Health Record (EHR) software can deliver the finely-grained levels of permission HIPAA was meant to provide and which modern medicine needs.
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CCHIT shut out of final certification rule
A final rule establishing a temporary certification process rejects the group's petition to maintain its position, which it thought it had established late in the Bush Administration, as the...
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CCHIT going on almost as if nothing happened
Will hospital administrators and practice managers insist on the comprehensive CCHIT-approved label, or will they accept any solution that brings them that sweet, sweet stimulus cash?
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Blumenthal committee throws CCHIT a bone
The main focus seems to be on setting rules that will guide certification, whether CCHIT is involved, and assuring a level playing field, something CCHIT was often charged with tilting in favor of...
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CCHIT fate could be decided today
Reformers like David Kibbe and Fred Trotter continue to sound alarmed in their statements to the media, but what I call the Markle Letter, emphasizing the importance of getting meaningful feedback...
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Health IT reformers look forward smiling
By focusing the definition on what software does, they feel, the committee kept the health IT industry's HIMSS trade group, and the CCHIT certification group it created, at arms-length.
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Meaningful use to be phased in
The big headline coming out of yesterday's Health Information Technology Policy Committee meeting in Washington is that the definition of "meaningful use," under which gear becomes eligible for...
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Will Obama surrender to health IT lobby?
The CCHIT "certification" documents are complex, its process is complex, and the result of following it is to exclude all new ideas, and open source, from health IT.
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Will meaningful use go down CCHIT rabbit hole?
The question is whether the industry groups which supported the last conservative Administration are going to now step up to the plate and walk their talk, or use their influence to undermine what...
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