Certify Electronic Health Records in Texas is in good hands

May 20, 2011 By Robert Graham --Houston Grand Hyatt ----Texas Medical Association Conference


Certify electronic health records in Texas is in good hands

certify electronic health record


Certification of EHRs is part of a broad initiative undertaken by Congress and President Obama under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act,

$20 million in new technical support assistance to help critical access and rural hospital facilities convert from paper-based medical records to certified electronic health record (EHR) technology. Some 1,655 critical access and rural hospitals in 41 states and the nationwide Indian Country, headquartered in the
District of Columbia, stand to benefit from this assistance, which can help each of them qualify for substantial EHR incentive payments from Medicare and Medicaid


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Also in Texas News Drummond Group Inc. (DGI), Austin, Texas, were named today by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) as the first technology review bodies that have been authorized to test and certify
electronic health record (EHR) systems for compliance with the standards and certification criteria that were issued
by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

ONC-ATCB certifiers. EHR vendors can begin immediately to get their products certified.” said David Blumenthal, M.D., national
coordinator for Health Information Technology. This is a crucial step because it ensures that certified EHR products will be available
to support the achievement of the required meaningful use objectives, that these products will be aligned with one another on key standards, and that doctors and hospitals can invest with
confidence in these certified systems.”