ONC Announces EHRs Approved for Meaningful Use

If you’re in the market for an EHR system, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) — this is the division of Health and Human Services making computer-related decisions for docs — has released its first list of approved and complete EHRs that have been determined to meet the requirements of “meaningful use.”

According to the ONC, “Only those EHR technologies appearing on the [ONC list] may be granted the reporting number that will be accepted by CMS for purposes of attestation under the EHR incentive program.”

As you know, healthcare providers must meet “meaningful use” in order to qualify for incentive funding allotted under the HITECH Act.  This list of 36 EHRs is a good starting point in your search for a compliant and approved system.

Ironically, the ONC’s website does not yet list all of the approved EHRs.  When that site is updated, it will be a good resource for your EHR shopping needs.  In the meantime, here’s the complete list of currently approved Complete EHRs, which are certified to meet ALL applicable certification criteria:

• ABEL Medical Software Inc. ABELMed EHR – EMR / PM 11 (Eligible Provider)
• Allscripts Allscripts Professional EHR 9.2 (Eligible Provider) Aprima Medical Software Inc. Aprima 2011 (Eligible Provider)
• Athenahealth Inc. AthenaClinicals 10.10 (Eligible Provider)
• CureMD Corp. CureMD EHR 10 (Eligible Provider) The DocPatientNetwork.com Doctations 2.0 (Eligible Provider) Epic Systems Corporation EpicCare Inpatient – Core EMR Spring 2008 (Hospital)
• Epic Systems Corporation EpicCare Ambulatory – Core EMR Spring 2008 (Eligible Provider) GE Healthcare Centricity Advance 10.1 (Eligible Provider)
• GloStream, Inc. GloEMR 6.0 (Eligible Provider)
• Intuitive Medical Software UroChartEHR 4.0 (Eligible Provider)
• MCS – Medical Communication Systems, Inc. iPatientCare 10.8 (Eligible Provider)
• Medical Informatics Engineering WebChart EHR 5.1 (Eligible Provider) Meditab Software Inc. IMS v. 14.0 (Eligible Provider) NeoDeck Software’s NeoMed EHR 3.0 (Eligible Provider)
• NextGen Healthcare NextGen Ambulatory EHR 5.6 (Eligible Provider)
• Nortec Software Inc. Nortec EHR 7.0 (Eligible Provider) Pulse Systems 2011 Pulse Complete EHR 2011 (Eligible Provider)
• SuccessEHS SuccessEHS 6.0 (Eligible Provider)

Here are the approved EHR modules, which are certified to at least ONE of the certification criteria adopted (modules focus on specific functions and sometimes allow for more flexibility than an all-in-one system):

• Allscripts Allscripts ED 6.3 Service Release 4 (Hospital)
• Allscripts Allscripts PeakPractice 5.5 (Eligible Provider)
• EClinicalWorks LLC eClinicalWorks 8.0.48 (Eligible Provider)
• Health Care Systems, Inc. HCS eMR 4.0 (Hospital)
• NexTech Systems Inc. NexTech Practice 2011 9.7 (Eligible Provider)
• nextEMR, LLC nextEMR, LLC 1.5.0.0 (Eligible Provider)
• PeriGen PeriBirth 4.3.50 (Hospital)
• Prognosis Health Information Systems ChartAccess 4 (Hospital)
• Sammy Systems SammyEHR 1.1.248 (Eligible Provider)
• T-System Technologies, Ltd. T SystemEV 2.7 (Hospital)
• Universal EMR Solutions Physician’s Solution 5.0 (Eligible Provider)
• Vision Infonet Inc. MDCare EMR 4.2 (Eligible Provider)
• WellCentive WellCentive Registry Version 2.0 (Eligible Provider)
• Wellsoft Corp. Wellsoft EDIS v11 (Hospital)