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CCHIT: Majority of successful MU attestors use dually-certified EHRs
Seventy-one percent of the electronic health records used by hospitals and professionals to attest to Meaningful Use have been certified by both the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT
CCHIT chair: Tips to use EHRs to improve safety
How well can your EHR system protect patients from substandard patient care? Evidently quite a bit, according to Karen Bell, chair of the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology
New CCHIT certification programs focus on women's health, oncology
The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) launched new electronic health record (EHR) certification programs this week in women's health (obstetrics), oncology, and
Could some Meaningful Use objectives be too aggressive?
As we examined in last week's commentary , many provider and healthcare industry groups had a lot to say about what they would like to see in Stages 2 and 3 of achieving Meaningful Use for electronic
SPOTLIGHT: CCHIT names former ONC deputy Bell as new chair
Here's some breaking news: the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology on Monday morning named Dr. Karen M. Bell as its new chair, effective April 26. Bell, former director of
Study: Current EMRs don't have measurable impact on cost or quality
In news that isn't exactly going to help convince the holdouts of the benefits of health IT, electronic medical records so far have had a marginal effect on quality and cost of care, according to a
