The battle heated up today on whether or not CCHIT should be the governing certification unit in it’s present state, the big battle being over including vendors on the board. I think the most unfair portion though is the fee to be certified and if that could be reduced to allow additional vendors to participate, that would cool a lot of heels. In other news today though a large network of 21 practices, Northern California Medical stated they got rid of 2 CCHIT EMRs as they were too time consuming and out of date and chose a hybrid product from a company named SRSSoft.
"After inheriting two CCHIT-certified point-and-click EMRs, we realized that they would be too time-consuming and cumbersome for our diverse multi-specialty practice," says Ruth Skidmore, CEO of NCMA. "The SRS pilot program gave us the confidence that their hybrid EMR would be embraced throughout our enterprise. The positive feedback from our physicians about SRS has been incredible."
"It's great to see that market leaders are acknowledging that CCHIT products cannot meet the needs of high-performance practices," says Evan Steele, CEO of SRSsoft. "The high cost of lost productivity inherent in point-and-click solutions is simply unacceptable."
“SRS was designed with direct input by its high-performance physicians to provide them with a system that fits their needs, helps them to work more efficiently, and enables them to achieve a rapid return on their investment. SRS, which has built the largest national network of high-performance practices that successfully use an EMR, attributes its unmatched adoption rate to ease of use, fast implementation, and an accelerated timeframe for training physicians and office staff.”
My thoughts, user interfaces are way to confusing and there are too many of them to learn. I think the Common User Interface is a good idea, so at least the items are found in somewhat the same areas and fashions and of course the emerging personal health records formats from HealthVault and Google Health are the ultimate patient back up, so when all else fails or is not available, you have your own and have the ability to share the information easily enough with an EHR/EMR used at the doctor’s office or hospital. BD
Microsoft HealthVault and Common User Interface Presentation from the UK - Slideshow
The commission charged with certifying health information technology is unduly influenced by legacy vendors whose concern for their own welfare is threatening the success of the national HIT initiative, a healthcare analyst told a federal workgroup Tuesday.
Brian Klepper, a panelist at Tuesday's HIT Policy Committee Certification/Adoption Workgroup hearing in Washington, DC, said the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology is led by people with strong ties to legacy software vendors and their trade group, Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society.
Klepper suggested that the CCHIT's role in defining certification rules be reduced, and that other certifying entities be brought in to perform those functions. He also suggested that CCHIT's executive leadership "should be replaced."
That idea didn't sit well with CCHIT Chairman Mark Leavitt, who was sitting a few feet from Klepper on the same panel.
Leavitt, the former CMO at the HIMSS, denied the assertion that legacy vendors are running the show at CCHIT. However, he said it would be unrealistic to exclude vendors from the process.
He added that Google, Microsoft, and New York Presbyterian and Beth Israel hospitals are ignoring CCHIT and swapping data on their own. "When the market begins to ignore what you are doing because what you are doing isn't keeping up, that means you are not current," he said.
HIT Panelist Bashes CCHIT as Legacy Vendors’ Puppet - www.healthleadersmedia.com
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