It’s been really interesting to see all the companies that are going after the ONC-ATCB EHR Certification. As one person mentioned to me this weekend, an EHR vendor that isn’t an ONC-ATCB certified EHR is dead in the water. With a few minor exceptions, that’s absolutely true. So far though, every EHR vendor that I know of has or will be an ONC-ATCB certified EHR.
Something that I’ve found really intriguing is all the modular EHR certified software products that have come out. Often these modular EHR certifications represent interesting companies or product lines for large companies that I never knew about.
I previously posted about a data warehouse product achieving the modular EHR certification. Today I saw that GE Centricity’s Patient Portal has achieved modular EHR certification as well. In many cases it makes a lot of sense to have the patient portal from a separate company. Particularly when you have multiple EHR software. So, it’s nice you can use it without worrying about the EHR certification since they are now certified.
I’ll be interested to see what other modular EHR certifications come out.
