EHR System Vendors – A Crowded Field is Facing new challenges - Stage 3 Certification Criteria
The Fox Group's EHR certification consulting services may be just what your Health-Tech Company needs to gain a competetive edge.
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The HITECH Act incentives for eligible professionals and hospitals to adopt an electronic health record system and adhere to the government’s meaningful use criteria have resulted in at least some of the intended consequences – a great many physicians and hospitals have selected and implemented an EHR system for their organization. Beginning in 2025, all systems must be certified under the Stage 3 criteria.
EHR development & certification consulting
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In addition to helping you with meeting the latest CEHRT criteria, we can help you with ideas on enhancing your EHR in areas such as reporting, integration and Patient Access Portal design.
Some of the Stage 3 criteria raise the bar in significant ways, for instance:
- Implement Clinical Decision Support (CDS) interventions focused on improving performance on high-priority health conditions.
- Provide patients with timely electronic access to health information and patient specific education materials.
- Patient engagement and coordination of care: Use CEHRT to engage with patients or their authorized representatives for improved coordination of care.
- Public health and clinical data registry reporting: The Provider actively engages with a public health agency or clinical data registry to submit electronic public health data in a meaningful way using CEHRT.
Vendors must also apply user-centered design methodologies to the development of 8 specific capabilities and identify a quality management system used in developing the software.
EHR System Certification and Design Consultation
The Fox Group can offer the perspective of potential EHR users who are interested in the extensive functionality of a system, as well as attaining meaningful use and qualifying for Stage 3 Meaningful Use incentives. As a vendor, you can make use of our expertise to get assistance in certifying your EHR software. The Fox Group can ...
- help you interpret the EHR technology certification criteria;
- help you understand how and what users will have to do to meet the Meaningful Use criteria;
- help you understand and incorporate ways to address compliance issues in an EHR system;
- organize focus groups that can provide practical feedback on user experience;
- ... and more.
To get an idea of what a well-prepared medical group would be using when requesting a demonstration of an EHR system, download a copy of our EHR & Practice Management Vendor Demonstration Checklist. This checklist also covers the Core and Menu Set Meaningful Use Objectives. As an EHR vendor, you must be able to demonstrate all of the health record items. And a comprehensive EHR and Practice Management system should be able to demonstrate all of the items.
A functional, user-friendly EHR system is no accident. Let The Fox Group help you deliver a marketable product in this competitive field.