Practice Fusion recently posted on their blog “An Open Letter to ONCHIT Chief David Blumenthal”. The letter contains some pretty strong language, including that CCHIT and HITSP “…have been overly influenced by the same small group of special interests, and have created at least the appearance of conflicts of interest.” With CCHIT and HITSP having [...]

….we believe most of the measures proposed for 2011 would be difficult to achieve by providers who have not already begun EHR implementations.
In a letter addressed to the Policy and Standards Committees of the Office of the National Coordinator, CCHIT stated that the draft meaningful use provisions for 2011 are overly ambitious. CCHIT also performed [...]

Ready, set, STOP.. in the mad dash to meaningful use, I feel we’re stuck at the starting line.
As I mentioned in my last blog, we’ve been working on a lot of big changes at TempDev – the first of which will be announced early next week. As we were making these changes, the draft definition [...]

One of the hottest blog topics of late 2008 / early 2009 has been the cries of smaller EHR vendors that innovation is stifled by large EHR vendors and CCHIT. I’ll agree that some aspects of CCHIT are disconcerting, particularly the focus on ratcheting up functionality requirements that are largely irrelevant to the goals of [...]

I was eager to attend the CCHIT Roundtable. CCHIT holds incredible pull over the EHR industry in determining the path for future product development. This power will increase exponentially if CCHIT is selected as the certification required for the HITECH Act.
CCHIT has been the subject of much criticism lately, including frustration over a certifying body [...]

Recently a friend asked my opinion on CCHIT with consideration to innovative products and whether there may actually be the touted perception of inclusion/exclusion.  My opinion….there’s NO favoring going on.  The prospect of certification should be broken into 2 areas:  1). the technology and function of it; and 2). the business aspect.
I’m fortunate enough to be familiar [...]

CCHIT has been the target of many smaller EMR companies of late because of frustration around the expense of the certification process and questions about the independence of the commission. I am going to wait until a future blog by one of our guest posters before passing judgement, except to say that for better or [...]