July 18, 2006 – The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHITSM) today announced that Medical Communication Systems, Inc. is CCHIT CertifiedSM for its product, mMD.net EHR 9.0 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 the recognized authority in the United States for certifying EHR products – an independent, nonprofit, public/private organization that sets the benchmark for healthcare information technology.
As a CCHIT Certified product, mMD.net EHR has been tested and passed inspection of 100 percent of a comprehensive 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 (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.
“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.”
“mMD.net EHR from MCS has been designed and developed keeping the needs and priorities of physicians’ offices in mind.” said Udayan Mandavia, President / CEO of Medical Communication Systems, Inc. “It is a complete grounds-up, path-breaking, thoroughly researched, and extensively validated product development using Microsoft .net framework, SQL Server, and OO implementation of Visual Studio.net. Compliant to HIPAA's mandates for security and privacy and interoperability standards such as HL7, NCPDP SureScripts, XML, and DOQ-IT, mMD.net EHR is designed to be deployed using Client/Server Architecture at the level of a doctor's office and as Services Oriented Architecture as an ASP, on a centrally hosted server, for evolving community health networks or RHIOs.” added Mr. Mandavia. As a strategy, MCS differs from most EHR vendors because of its focus on developing world-class products and distributing them through strategic partners within United States and outside. “Having a product certified by CCHIT, accolades of winning four TEPR 2006 Awards, numero uno rankings from independent analysts, such as, AC Group, and being used by 2,000+ end users mean true recognition and end-user led revolution for MCS and its mMD.net suite of products.”, concluded the CEO bubbling with enthusiasm and optimism, along with his fired-up team at MCS and go-getter strategic channel partners.
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 Medical Communication Systems, Inc.
MCS - Medical Communication Systems, Inc. is a privately held medical informatics company, founded in 1994, and based at Woburn, Massachusetts and Old Bridge, New Jersey. Owned and managed by physicians and technologists, MCS is known for the innovations in healthcare IT market space and excellence in software engineering. MCS pioneered mobile computing solutions for highly mobile healthcare providers by releasing a Palm Pilot based Patient Charting product way back in 1997. Since then, the Company has come a long way to evolving distinct Enterprise Management Solutions for:
- Ambulatory Care for physician-owned group practices and hospital based ambulatory practices
- Sub Acute Care for Nursing Homes / Rehab Centers / Home Health Agencies
- Military Health Care with focus on Theater Information Systems
More information on MCS and its products is available at http://www.medcomsys.com
About CCHIT
CCHIT was founded in 2004 with support from three leading industry associations in healthcare information management and technology – The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and The National Alliance for Health Information Technology (Alliance). 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. More information on CCHIT and a list of CCHIT Certified products is available at www.cchit.org. |
