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EMR certification group sets goals
NEWS IN BRIEF — Posted Oct. 11, 2004
The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology announced in September that it expects to have a first-step certification process for outpatient electronic medical records systems ready for testing by the summer of 2005.
The commission also expects to roll out comprehensive second- and third-year certification processes in subsequent years as part of its effort to develop industrywide voluntary certification standards for EMRs, making it easier for physicians to evaluate and select EMRs.
The commission was founded in July by the American Health Information Management Society Assn., the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society and the National Alliance for Health Information Technology. Certification of EMRs plays a key role in the Bush administration's plans to spur physician adoption of EMRs, and create a national health information network and electronic records for every American in the next 10 years.
Note: This item originally appeared at http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2004/10/11/bibf1011.htm.
