CCHIT issued a press release on October 1, 2010 announcing testiing and certification of 33 EHR modules and complete systems. CCHIT certified 19 complete EHRs including one for a hospital and the rest for ambulatory clinician practices. Among 14 EHR systems certified by CCHIT as modules,  6 were for hospitals and remainder for ambulatory practices. CCHIT noted that many of the certified modules had been submitted as complete EHRs but had not yet been tested for a small number of tests since the federal agency, NIST, had not finalized some of the testing criteria, such as electronic prescribing.  

InfoGard Laboratories was only authorized by ONC to begin testing on September 24, 2010, while CCHIT and Drummond Group authorization began September 3, 2010. InfoGard is based in San Luis Obisop, CA; while CCHIT is based in Chicago, IL; and Drummond Group, Inc, is based in Austin, TX.

“Each Complete EHR and EHR Module listed below has been certified by an ONC-Authorized Testing and Certification Body (ATCB), and reported to ONC, and approved by ONC after review. Certified products are identified with the name of the certifying ATCB, the ONC certification number, vendor information, product information, and product version number. Please note that only those products and versions included on the CHPL are deemed “certified EHR technology” under the ONC Temporary Certification Program. The CHPL provides a snapshot of the current listing of certified EHR products, and is updated as newly certified products are reported to and approved by ONC.”

Using the CHPL
“The Products Overview table references two types of EHR product certification classifications, one for Complete EHRs and one for EHR Modules.

“EHR products classified as Complete EHR are certified to meet all the mandatory certification criteria as identified in the Standards and Certification Criteria Final Rule (45 CFR Part 170 Part III). In the Final Rule, the certification criterion for Accounting for Disclosures (§170.302(w)) is optional for systems or technologies seeking certification and may not appear.

“EHR Modules are those technologies that are certified to at least one of the certification criteria as defined in the Standards and Certification Criteria Final Rule. Due to the regulatory requirement that EHR Module technologies be certified to the security criteria, as elaborated in the Final Rule, EHR Modules will typically be certified to more than one of the regulatory criteria.”

The data in the CHPL Products Overview table is current as of October 01, 2010.

Products Certification Overview 

Additional details will be available next week. 

Commission Announces First ONC-ATCB 2011/2012 Certifications
Press Release Issued by CCHIT on October 1, 2010 produced in full below.