ONC-ATCB Certified EHR Now Available

In case you missed the announcements on Thursday and Friday, Drummond Group announced the first ONC-ATCB certified EHR (3 of them) and CCHIT announced their first set of ONC-ATCB certified EHR (21 full ONC-ATCB EHR). I also got word today that HHS finally updated their website with the Drummond Group ONC-ATCB.

Of course, we have a few hundred more EHR software out there that are going to be announced. It’s just a matter of how quickly the ONC-ATCB are going to be able to pump out the certifications. Not to mention the EMR vendors completing the list of requirements.

As one EMR vendor told me this weekend. We could have easily rolled out the features that the EHR certification requires to become certified. However, that wouldn’t have been very useful for our users. Then, he went on to say that he’d rather spend an extra month or two to make the certified EHR requirements part of a really nice and useful dashboard than to just roll out some shoddy features that satisfy the EHR certification requirements, but don’t make sense to doctors.

Makes you wonder about these first EHR vendors that have been certified. Just because the EMR is an official ONC-ATCB doesn’t mean you will actually want to use that EMR software.

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