“One of the big controversies early this year was over the role CCHIT was playing, certifying vendors to sell Electronic Health Record (EHR) software.
CCHIT (Certification Commission for Health Information Technology) was formed in 2004 out of HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society), an industry group, and began certifying EHR systems in 2006. Until this year you entered the EHR market by first undergoing CCHIT certification.”
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Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet Healthcare, 11 November 2009
