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CCHIT Completes Guidance on New Long-Term, Post Acute Care EHR Certification
A special task force created by the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) to provide strategic guidance on development for certification for long-term and post acute care electronic health records (EHRs) has completed its work, recommending a strong focus on the EHR technology requirements of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).
Last month, the Long Term and Post Acute Care (LTPAC) Advisory Task Force delivered its recommendations to the Certification Commission, which approved them unanimously. During its six weeks of work, the task force agreed that the LTPAC technical work group should identify core certification criteria common to four priority care settings for use in the initial EHR certification. These care settings are:
Other recommendations include reusing or adapting existing criteria from other CCHIT certification programs, identifying additional criteria specific to each care setting and including a roadmap indicating when the criteria are expected to be implemented.
The newly appointed LTPAC Work Group will receive these recommendations, along with other Commission recommendations on its scope of work and begin the process of developing criteria for certification of LTPAC EHRs at its first face-to-face meeting this month. The Advisory Task Force — which includes representatives from skilled nursing facility (SNF), assisted living, home care, hospice, health IT, government and consumer organizations — will continue to provide input on EHR certification to the Certification Commission’s LTPAC Work Group. EHR certification for the first two settings — SNFs and certified home healthcare — is expected to be available in 2010 during a phased rollout of the Commission’s newly developed 2011-2012 ARRA EHR certification programs.
Source: The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology, June 30, 2009
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