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Roster of certified EMRs expands
NEWS IN BRIEF — Posted Aug. 21, 2006
The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology announced July 31 that it certified two additional ambulatory electronic medical records software products, bringing the total number of products that have met its EMR certification criteria for 2006 to 22.
iMedica Patient Relationship Manager 2005, version 5.1, from iMedica Corp. and Praxis Electronic Medical Records, version 3.4, from Infor-Med Corp. are the latest products to receive CCHIT's seal of approval. CCHIT also announced that EMRs from Community Computer Service Inc. and LSS Data Systems had achieved full certification status. Those companies' products had received pre-market conditional approval in mid July, pending verification by CCHIT that they were in use in a clinical setting.
Note: This item originally appeared at http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2006/08/21/bibf0821.htm.