gloEMR, gloStream's Flagship Electronic Medical Record Solution, Receives CCHIT Certification

BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich., April 30  /PRNewswire/ -- The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT(SM)) today announced that gloStream's flagship electronic medical record product, gloEMR version 3.5, is CCHIT Certified(SM), 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 products - an independent, nonprofit organization that sets the benchmark for EHRs.
As a CCHIT Certified product, gloEMR has been tested and passed inspection of 100 percent of a set of criteria for:
  -- functionality (ability to create and manage electronic records for all     patients, as well as automating  workflow in a physician's office),  -- interoperability (a first step in the ability to receive and send     electronic data to other entities such as laboratories), and  -- security (ability to keep patients' information safe).
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.
"Physicians 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."
"Gaining CCHIT Certification underscores our commitment to meeting the industry standards of the ambulatory marketplace," said Mike Sappington, CEO, gloStream.  "We strongly believe full-featured certified products that have demonstrated interoperability increase confidence to implement EHR solutions. gloStream is entirely focused on developing integrated EHR products for the ambulatory market which include document and image management systems, voice recognition technology and a broad range of clinical decision making tools that improve care while increasing efficiency for doctors."
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.
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