What is a certified EHR?
Certified Electronic Health Record (EHR) is a software system that meets government criteria for "meaningful use" of an electronic record. "Meaningful use" means that the program manages information in a way that either supports better communication or creates better quality of care. The National Coordinator's Office for Health Information Information Technology (ONC) defines a set of basic software tasks that each EHR must do to obtain certification. In order to prove "meaningful use", the certified EHR must submit detailed messages to the Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Center to assess the health care provider. In addition, the certified EHR must build certain information about the patient's record, to allow medical information to share medical information between healthcare providers and electronically transmitting regulations, while ensuring privacy and data security.
ehr are evaluated by independent, accredited test devices and certififorged by the certification committee for medical information technologies (CCHIT) or other of the six approved certification entities. To become a certified EHR, the software company voluntarily presents its complete EHR system or simply a single test module. The "meaningful use" certification criteria include electronic prescribing, patient approach to records through online portals, sharing medical records between doctors' treatment, and reporting government databases for public health supervision. Certified EHR must not only prescribe electronically, but also check that there is drug interaction, allergy. In addition, the software has to prove check over who gets access, automatically sign out, verify the user and encrypt the data to ensure the patient's data safety.
Certified EHR must also maintain current lists of active medicines, problems, allergies, vital signs and immunization for each patient. Demography of patients, including withThe patient's smoking, and the results of laboratory tests must be accessible through EHR. Certified EHR also monitors patients' wishes for resuscitation, release instructions, a computer order of a physician and a learning resources for the patient. Clinical quality measures can also be monitored and a table for reporting government agencies. Test agencies generally have a team that consists of doctors, nurses and software analysts, perform a number of test data on patients using EHR software to determine compliance with all regulations.
As soon as the EHR system passed all tests, the certification body will publish and publish the company on the list of EHR certified systems on the ONC website. There are two types of certification depending on whether the software sent is a complete EHR system or just a module. For complete EHR systems all 33 criteria for meanimusi are met. If the software is only a module, at least nine out of 33 criteria must be met.