“One of many potential beneficiaries of last week’s release of a proposed federal rule outlining the process by which HHS will authorize organizations to test and certify electronic health-record systems is the not-for-profit organization formed in 2004 to do those very tasks.
The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology has a first-mover advantage under the new rule announced by David Blumenthal, head of HHS’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, during the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society convention held last week in Atlanta.”
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Joseph Conn, Modern Healthcare, 8 March 2010
