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HL7: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You

How many times do hospital IS/IT directors come across this scenario?

Your hospital has just signed on the dotted line for a new EMR. It’s meant to streamline clinician workflows, facilitate improved quality of care, and help meet all-important Meaningful Use targets. And all you have to do is interface it.

You’ve got a budget, a timeline, an interface engine, a couple of developers, a couple of analysts, a pile of legacy systems to integrate [...]

Yesterday, CCHIT launched their ONC-mandated test and certification program and delivered a one-hour webcast on their process. Slides and a recording are available on the CCHIT site.

One thing is clear. Certification is just the first step. Certification means that the EHR system or module meets NIST testing criteria for functionality and security related to Stage 1 Meaningful Use measures. But implementation and related integration issues still loom in the background.

At least three objectives in the core and menu sets require [...]