I’ve been really fascinated to see all the various companies that are becoming ONC-ATCB certified software. I use to call it ONC-ATCB certified EHR, but with all these health IT companies becoming certified I don’t think we should be calling them EHR. They certainly support and connect with EHR software, but they aren’t EHR software per se.
I previously posted about a Data Warehouse Company being ONC-ATCB certified and a Patient Portal Achieving ONC-ATCB Certification. Both interesting use cases for achieving ONC-ATCB certification.
A few weeks ago it was announced that the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative (MAeHC) has certified their Quality Data Center (QDC) software. As I understand it, MAeHC is a quality improvement organization which makes for another interesting entry into the ONC-ATCB certification space. They seem to have a lot of connections with REC organizations which will be interesting as well.
When you look through the list of requirements that MAeHC met it basically met the required security criteria and then the clinical quality measures. I imagine the real benefit of using this software is for those trying to combine data from multiple EHR systems. I wonder which type of organization we’ll see becoming ONC-ATCB certified next.
