The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) has restructured its volunteer work groups, and said it is recruiting new staff to support an expanded certification program next year.
The CCHIT said universal electronic health record (EHR) requirements applicable to all settings will be addressed by a new EHR foundation work group. The current work groups addressing office-based (ambulatory) and hospital-based (inpatient) criteria will continue to focus on the requirements specific to those two settings, supplemented by a third work group developing criteria for emergency department systems.
Another new group will be formed to begin developing certification criteria for health information networks, the third phase of its contract with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Besides those five work groups, the CCHIT said five new "expert panels" will concentrate on security, privacy, interoperability, and the new expansion areas of children's healthcare and cardiovascular medicine.
The CCHIT will hold a Town Call teleconference at 11 a.m. EDT on Monday, April 23, to discuss details about the new work group structure.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
April 18, 2007
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