“Electronic Health Record (EHR) certification has undergone a fundamental change, as a result of the Health IT Policy Committee developing a national health IT framework based on “Meaningful Use.” Unlike approaches to certification in the past, created by the vendor industry to codify features that “seemed like a good idea at the time,” the HHS approach is more methodical. It started from a high level deliberative process, which identified a set of national priorities to help focus performance improvement efforts in healthcare delivery. From there, “meaningful use” definitions were elaborated, and are the basis of a new type of certification, called HHS Certification.”
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Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers, 1 September 2009
