HITECH certification

[JSS]

I have uploaded a letter expressing opposition to the use of CCHIT
certification for the HITECH Act. David Kibbe provided major help with
editing. I am planning to send this to appropriate government
officials involved in this issue, and would like to make the material
available to anyone else who is interested in using it as well
(modified or unmodified).

It would be great to begin collating contact info on individuals in
HHS, Congress, etc. who would benefit from hearing this.

Jeff Soble

[Edmund Billings]

Thank you Jeff and David.

Will you both be coming to HIMSS?

Edmund
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[JSS]

By the way, I would be interested in suggestions from the group about
which organizations/agencies might be best suited to administer the
"thinner" EHR certification process we've outlined.

-Jeff

[Robert Rowley MD]

I heartily applaud the document you have put together. I have been an
advocate of the use of Usability, Interoperability and Affordability
as the criteria-domains for selection of EHR systems; but as far as
certification is concerned, I am in full agreement that "thin
certification" based on the ability to prove standards-based
interoperability should be the approach taken.

I had forwarded a link to Shahid Shah (http://www.healthcareguy.com/),
who has expressed an interest in serving on the newly-created HHS
"Health IT Standards Committee" which will be the body that decides on
certification criteria this year. He is very supportive of
interoperability as the main thrust of HIT, and sees the shortcomings
of the CCHIT approach as described so well in the paper.

Robert Rowley MD
Chief Medical Officer
Practice Fusion, Inc.

[Cameron Brackett]

Great work! I'd like to see more focus on interoperability as that is
the barrier to overcome to promote innovation and adoption. I'm not
interested in the house, let alone, the features, if there's no power
or water infrastructure running to it (or even standardized).

Cameron Brackett
Director of R&D, Honeywell

[David Kibbe]

Well, this is exactly right.  Why would you force link devices/apps to the data?  It simply makes no sense...except to the incumbent device makers!  ; )   DCK 

David C. Kibbe, MD MBA

Senior Advisor, American Academy of Family Physicians

Chair, ASTM International  E31Technical Committee on Healthcare Informatics

Principal, The Kibbe Group LLC 

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[JSS]

I would also suggest that the current AIG debacle is a timely
illustration of what can happen when entire industries become
dependent on dominant players that are "too big to fail". I think
there is a serious chance that CCHIT certification could push us in
the same direction in the HIT space.

-Jeff

On Mar 23, 6:12 pm, Cameron Brackett <Cameron.Brack...@honeywell.com>
wrote:

[Robert Rowley MD]

The newly-formed HIT Standards Committee is the organization that will
decide the certificaiton criteria. (http://
www.healthindustrywashingtonwatch.com/2009/03/articles/other-hhs-developments/hit-standards-committee-and-hit-policy-committee-nominations-due-march-16-2009/).
There was a very tiny window for nominations to this committee --
requests were posted on March 11, and nominations were to be done by
March 16, 2009. Regardless, we should keep an eye on this committee,
and engage them actively as they begin the process of deciding on what
sort of certification criteria should be put into place going forward.

Robert Rowley MD
Chief Medical Officer
Practice Fusion, Inc.

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[I, Valdes]

That is because the whole certification thing, like the
interoperability thing, is a scam designed to give the appearance of
fairness while the real goal is to further entrench the big
proprietary players with taxpayer money. Unfortunately, nearly
everyone has bought into this which will put us back 10-20 years. When
it doesn't work but they've collected billions they'll throw up their
hands and go 'Oh! you wanted THAT. Why didn't you say so? We'll need
more money for THAT.'

-- IV

P.S. All EMR software purchased with taxpayer money must be Affero
General Public Licensed.

On Mar 25, 9:27 am, Robert Rowley MD <rob...@practicefusion.com>
wrote: