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Healthcare IT News ■ February 2008 industry news www.HealthcareITNews.com three more hospital EhRs receive cchIt certification By rICHarD pIzzI, Associate Editor CHiCaGo – The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology gave its seal of approval to three additional electronic health record products designed for use in acute care hospitals. This latest round of certification brings the total number of certified inpatient products to nine, or an estimated 36 percent of inpatient EHR vendors. The commission’s focus for the first year of inpatient product testing is clinician order entry (CPOE or “Computerized Physician Order Entry”) and medication administration capabilities (eMAR or “Electronic Medication Administration Record”). CCHIT Chairman Mark Leavitt, MD, said this area has the lowest rate of adoption in hospitals but has been shown to offer the highest value for improvement of care. The new CCHIT-certified products are: ■ Cerner Millennium PowerChart 2007 by the Cerner Corp.; ■ Clinical Systems MAGIC 5.6 by Meditech, Inc.; and Healthcare Information Technology ■ INVISION Clinicals Version 27.0 is an independent, nonprofit organiwith Siemens Pharmacy and Med zation that has been officially named Administration Check (MAK) Version by the federal government as a “rec24.0 by Siemens Medical Solutions ognized certification body” for elecUSA, Inc. (pre-market conditional). tronic health record products. Its The certification commission is in mission is to accelerate the adoption Mark Leavitt, MD the midst of a new application period, of healthcare information technology which began Feb. 1. The application period by creating a credible, sustainable product for ambulatory and inpatient EHR products certification program. ■ will remain open until March 31. More at HealthcareITNews.com The Certification Commission for ●Connect: CCHIt 0208 e epresCrIBe Continued from page 5 Gingrich, the founder of the Center for Health Transformation. “With Americans using ATM cards everyday in this country and abroad, we believe they are prepared for the massive benefits provided by an electronic prescription system.” Many groups say the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) rules prohibiting the electronic prescribing of controlled substances blocks progress. Because of these rules, physicians are forced to use both paper and electronic methods to prescribe, keeping many from going electonic at all. Anne C. Canfield, representing the ePrescribing Controlled Substances Coalition called the DEA rules “a very, very serious impediment to the adoption of e-prescribing.” Canfield, a government relations consultant based in Washington, said the coalition and others are looking to federal sources of relief to overturn or alter the DEA rules. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt urged Congress to include an e-prescribing requirement in its fiscal year 2008 budget bill in December, but his efforts failed. In December, 19 senators sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Michel Mukasey urging him to confirm the security of the DEA’s IT transmission platforms. They hope this will help quell DEA’s concerns on liability issues. Glen Tullman, co-chairman of the National ePrescribing Patient Safety Initiative said his group supports required e-prescribing for Medicare. “Focus on any piece of this is helpful,” Tullman said. “We think of e-prescribing as the on-ramp to the electronic healthcare highway. When doctors use e-prescribing they are eventually going to adopt electronic health records.” ■ More at HealthcareITNews.com e Connect: ePreSCrIBe 0208 ● aHIC Continued from page 5 Upon completion of Phase 1, Phase 2 will be funded with $3 million to successfully establish AHIC 2.0 by December. Additional funding may be allocated to support operations of AHIC 2.0 once it is established. “The successful establishment of AHIC 2.0 in the private sector will ensure long-term success in the development of a nationwide health information network, said Robert Kolodner, MD, national coordinator for healthcare information technology. “The progress that we are seeing today will continue through 2008 and beyond as we move to a more visible phase of our work in expanding access to interoperable health IT.” ■ More at HealthcareITNews.com e Connect: aHIC 0208 Offer subject to CDW’s standard terms and conditions of sale, available at CDW.com. ©2008 CDW Corporation see us aT HIMss08 BooTH #1420 5734 cdw_HealthITN_2-1.indd 23 ● http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=8589 http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=8584 http://www.CDW.com http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=8585

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