Certification & Meaningful Use

emids' team of experienced health IT consultants partner with your internal resources to guide you smoothly through the process of certification, and maximize your chances for accreditation.

Our team works side by side with you from pre-application preparation through the testing process and into on-going certification maintenance support. Achieving certification is a complex and time consuming task. emids Certification support allows you to leverage our experience within a solid framework designed to augment your own internal expertise.

Our consulting services for Certification & Meaningful Use compliance is tailored for the three primary criteria of functionality, interoperability, and security as published by ONCHIT®

Meaningful Use

• Meaningful Use 'attestation' will be implementation specific
• EHR/EMR software certification may be a qualifying criteria but will not guarantee Meaningful Use attestation
• HIMSS Thoughts
  • The implementation of electronic health records and Meaningful Use has a dramatic impact on data management
  • Quality metrics are integral to the Meaningful Use requirements outlined by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Clinicians will have to report on three core quality measures in 2011 and 2012: blood pressure level, tobacco status, and adult weight screening
  • The Medicare and Medicaid programs are central to the implementation of Meaningful Use, and they will be undergoing change as Meaningful Use is implemented
  • The implementation of electronic health records and Meaningful Use will vary by type of provider
  • In the HITECH portion of ARRA, there are modifications to HIPAA as well as some new privacy laws. The concepts of due care and due diligence are woven tightly into the HIPAA law
  • Development of health information exchange capability is a key component in supporting providers achieving Meaningful Use requirements
• Future of Meaningful Use
  • Generation 1 – capture necessary data and report
  • Generation 2 – use data to measure quality
  • Generation 3 – intervene to improve quality

emids CoE has brought about an automated test harness for certification guidance. Click here for more details

Benefits

• Access to knowledge and resources on certification criteria enabled by our healthcare COE team
• Our past experience working on consulting assignment for Certification & MU
• Ability to leverage readily available test harness for certification developed by the emids healthcare CoE
• End-to-end assistance in certification and MU compliance

Case studies

• Certification services for one of the nephrology clinics
• CCHIT® 2011 comprehensive ambulatory EHR Gap analysis for a renowned healthcare ISV

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