CERTIFICATION COMMISSION EXPERIENCES SURGE IN APPLICATIONS

Recently announced on the CCHIT website:

CERTIFICATION COMMISSION EXPERIENCES SURGE IN APPLICATIONS;

Solid interest from EHR vendors parallel new federal incentives. An unprecedented rush of applications to meet a deadline for applying for the '08 cycle of certification testing brought to 64 the number of ambulatory electronic health record (EHR) products seeking to become CCHIT Certified® under the most rigorous criteria to date for functionality, security and, especially, interoperability. To date, 25 ambulatory EHR products have been 08 certified, including Greenway Medical Technologies, NextGen and Allscripts.

~This may reflect the impetus from the HITECH Act of the ARRA requiring "meaningful use" of “certified” solutions.