MEDICAT, LLC EMR 8.8
RECEIVES CCHIT CERTIFICATION
Software complies with 100 percent of certification criteria
January 29, 2007 - The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHITSM) today announced that MEDICAT, LLC is CCHIT CertifiedSM for its product, Medicat 8.8 and meets CCHIT ambulatory electronic health record (EHR) criteria for 2006. Ambulatory EHRs are designed for physician offices and clinics where most Americans get their healthcare. CCHIT is a Recognized Certification Body in the United States for certifying health information technology - an independent, non-profit organization that sets the benchmark for electronic health records.
As a CCHIT Certified product, Medicat 8.8 has been tested and passed inspection of 100 percent of a comprehensive set of criteria for:
"We are pleased to be the first vendor with CCHIT certification for EHR that is focused on college health," said Stacy Kottman, President and CEO of Medicat, LLC. "This certification reinforces our mission to provide the most stable and secure healthcare information solution to colleges and universities of all sizes. We back this up with superb implementation and unsurpassed support."
The CCHIT Certified mark - a "seal of approval" for EHR products - provides the first consensus-based, consistent benchmark for ambulatory products. By looking to products with the CCHIT Certified seal, physicians and other providers can be assured they are making a reliable investment and insurers and other payers know the products meet expected industry standards.
"Physician who purchase certified products have the assurance that they have been reviewed by a panel of judges, including practicing physicians, and that they are being evaluated against standards set by professionals in the field and successfully piloted with products from large and small companies," said Mark Leavitt, M.D., Ph.D., chair, CCHIT. "The quality and safety of EHR products can now be measured using certification criteria that were developed specifically for that purpose."
The goals of CCHIT product certification are to reduce the risk of HIT investment by physicians and other providers; ensure interoperability of HIT products; enhance the availability of HIT adoption incentives from purchasers and payers; and protect the privacy of personal health information.
CCHIT's certification compliance criteria and its design for a certification inspection process have been thoroughly researched, taking into account the state of the art of EHRs and available standards, and comparing certification processes in other industries and other countries. The inspection process is based on real-life medical scenarios designed to test products rigorously against the clinical needs of providers and the quality and safety needs of healthcare consumers and payers. One script, for example, recreates a scenario of an elderly man with poorly controlled diabetes, hypertension and other chronic conditions in order to test EHR functions such as potential adverse drug reactions, disease management and treatment plans.
About MEDICAT, LLC
Medicat, LLC is the leading national provider of EMR and Practice Management
software for Student Health Centers at colleges and universities. As
a product, Medicat 8.8 reflects over thirteen years of listening and
responding to client needs. As a company, we understand that successful
EMR implementation is as much about people and process as technology.
Medicat's training and implementation staff having worked as student
health clinicians and administrators, use their first-hand experience
to successfully implement EMR within a client's workflow.
Medicat's EMR philosophy is simply stated - software should not determine how the provider practices medicine. Medicat 8.8 EMR is designed as an intuitive and flexible Clinical Decision Support system, enabling individual provider preferences, well-informed clinical decisions, consistent treatment protocols and clear documentation of the patient encounter.
Medicat 8.8 includes not only comprehensive EMR and Practice Management functionality, but also:
To find out more visit www.medicat.com
About CCHIT
The Certification Committee for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHITSM), founded in 2004, is an independent, nonprofit organization. Its mission is to accelerate the adoption of robust, interoperable health information technology by creating an efficient, credible and sustainable product certification program. CCHIT accomplishes its work through contributions of hundreds of expert volunteers and constructive engagement by stakeholders throughout the health care industry. In September 2005, CCHIT was awarded a contract by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to develop, create prototypes for, and evaluate the certification criteria and inspection process for EHRs and the networks through which they interoperate. In October 2006, CCHIT was deemed a Recognized Certification Body by the Department of Health and Human Services. More information on CCHIT and CCHIT CertifiedSM products is available at www.cchit.org.
"CCHITSM" and "CCHIT CertifiedSM" are service marks of the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology.
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