Forbes
“Mobile devices are proving instrumental for a growing number of healthcare professionals. Smartphones and tablets are progressing beyond ways for doctors and nurses to check in during a busy day, and becoming part of the very fabric of healthcare delivery.
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Brian T. Horowitz, eWeek
“Happtique, an online mobile health application marketplace, has announced it will develop a certification program to vet thousands of mobile applications that doctors, nurses and patients use.
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Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“Happtique, a healthcare-focused appstore, announced plans to create a certification program that will help the medical community determine which of the tens of thousands of health-related mobile apps are clinically appropriate and technically sound. The company has tapped a multi-disciplinary team to develop the “bona fide mHealth app certification program” within the next six months.
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Blumenthal D. N Engl J Med, 365(25)
In the spring of 2009, the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) faced a daunting project: to lead the creation of a nationwide, interoperable, private, and secure electronic health information system. The DHHS and its two key agencies that were responsible for this task — the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) — were in many ways unprepared to undertake it.
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Mike Miliard, Healthcare IT News
“In what its CEO billed as a development that “could finally drive global usage and adoption” of the technology, drchrono, which makes electronic health records for iPads, received meaningful use certification as an ambulatory EHR this past July.
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Joseph Goedert, HDM Breaking News
“In February 2010, Dean Sittig, PhD, co-authored a commentary in the Journal of the American Medical Association that listed five ways to improve the safety of electronic health records.
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Daniel Essin, Physicians Practice
“It’s more or less accepted that human behavior is so complex that any attempt to regulate it is bound to have some unintended consequences. By consequence, I mean a negative or undesirable outcome; there is generally little objection to the other kind of consequence, a serendipitous positive result.
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NexTech EMR
“A fully certified EMR means more than just a few letters (ONC-ATB, CCHIT, etc.) tacked onto the name, but that the software measures up to the highest standards in the industry.
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Frank Irving, EHRWatch
“GE Healthcare announced on Oct. 5 a pair of certifications for its Centricity Patient Online 12.0 solution that will improve the portal’s capacity to deliver patient-centric service at the point of care, according to the company.
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Daniel Essin, Physicians Practice
“While an “integrated” system has the attraction of apparent simplicity, attempts to improve quality and efficiency are best made sequentially because each can have unanticipated ripple effects on the entire system. The full effect of each change must be assessed before moving on to the next. In practice it is easier and quicker to have a dozen component suppliers each working in parallel to improve their quality and efficiency.
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Ken Terry, FierceHealthIT
“Is it possible that the Obama Administration is doing something right in its ambitious health IT program? The U.K. National Health Service’s failed, decade-long effort to implement a nationwide electronic health record system suggests that, in many ways, the U.S. government is taking a wiser approach to encouraging widespread EHR adoption.
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Gienna Shaw, HealthLeaders Media
“The e-health market is bloated with simple tools for patients—online weight trackers and apps that offer exercise and diet tips, for example. And there’s no dearth of physician tools that aid decision support, diagnosis, or provide access to medical references.
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Birgit Pscheidl, Stiftung Gesundheit Blog
“Vor gut einem Jahr haben wir auf unserem Jahresempfang das neue Prüfverfahren für gesundheitsbezogene Websites vorgestellt. Dabei überprüfen mehrere unabhängige Gutachter die Homepages anhand eines detaillierten Prüfungskatalogs, der weit über 100 Einzelaspekte berücksichtigt
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Amit Trivedi, EMR and EHR
“We all know there is no such thing as perfect security. All we can do is try to mitigate as many risks as possible. In this regard, there are areas related to information security that the current ONC-ATCB 2011/2012 (commonly referred to as meaningful use) certification testing does not yet address and that the health IT community should be aware of when implementing systems.
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Roger A. Maduro, OpenHealthNews
“After more than a year of upgrades and enhancements and months of testing at the ICSA Labs EHR Certification Program, OpenEMR version 4.1 received full ‘meaningful use’ certification for ambulatory care settings on Friday, August 19.
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John, EMR and HIPAA
“This is a really big announcement for the open source ambulatory EHR community. A number of other open source EHR are certified, but they’re mostly for the hospital EHR space.
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Mike Miliard, Healthcare IT News
“drchrono, which offers a free electronic health record platform on the iPad, has received ONC-ACTB certification, allowing doctors to receive up to $44,000 in incentives for using the app. Officials tout drchrono as the first iPad-native EHR to be certified for meaningful use.
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Diana Manos, Government Health IT
“Healthcare systems running on legacy software, customized commercial products or homegrown EHR systems that would cost hundreds of millions to replace can breath a sigh of relief, according to CCHIT.
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Diana Manos, Healthcare IT News
“Certification of electronic health record products is the first step toward achieving meaningful use. But what if you are a healthcare system operating under legacy software, customized commercial products or homegrown EHR systems that would cost hundreds of millions to replace with a new product already certified by the vendor?
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Katherine Rourke, EMR and EHR
“Here’s a proposal that could make Meaningful Use standards and vendor certification programs more valuable. Authors writing for the Journal of the American Medical Association have suggested that the Joint Commission’s National Patient Safety Goals for 2011 be included in EHR certification and MU criteria.
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