Resources

If you are interested in learning more about exchanging electronic health records, these resources may be helpful. These sites cover topics such as the technology behind records exchange, the necessary standards that an exchange must meet, and ways to test a system as it is being built.

Certification Process

  • Certification Commission for Health Information Technology
    The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT ®) is an independent, 501(c)3 nonprofit organization with the public mission of accelerating the adoption of robust interoperable health information technology.
  • Drummond Group, Inc.
    Leveraging more than a decade's worth of interoperability, conformance testing and certification experience in multiple industries, Drummond Group Inc. is a trusted software test lab and ONC-ATCB that provides effective and efficient electronic health record (EHR) testing to healthcare information technology vendors.
  • ICSA Labs
    ICSA Labs has provided vendor-neutral testing and certification for hundreds of security products and solutions for many of the world's top security product developers and service providers. Enterprises worldwide rely on ICSA Labs to set and apply objective testing and certification criteria for measuring product compliance and performance. .
  • InfoGuard Laboratories, Inc.
    The first private IT security laboratory to become accredited by the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Payment Card Industry Security Council, and Postal authorities.
  • SLI Global Solutions, Inc.
    SLI Global Solutions’ Corporate Quality System has been audited to and certified against ISO 9001:2008 standards of quality performance. SLI is also a certified lab under the National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program of NIST.
  • Surescripts LLC
    Surescripts certifies software used by prescribers, pharmacies and payers. Surescripts operates the nation's largest e-prescription network and supports a rapidly expanding ecosystem of health care organizations nationwide. Surescripts is helping to make the electronic exchange of healthcare information more accurate, secure, efficient and convenient.

Nationwide Health Information Network Exchange

  • Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health Information Technology - The ONC not only coordinates a variety of programs to implement the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, but supports the efforts of several related initiatives to facilitate nationwide adoption of health IT. Information on Meaningful Use, Privacy and Security, Certification Programs, and Federal Advisory Committees is located on the ONC Health Information Technology site.
  • Nationwide Health Information Network Resources
    The Nationwide Health Information Network resources page contains information on policies and procedures, an architectural overview, product specifications, a tools inventory, and trial implementation documents.
  • CONNECT Gateway Software
    CONNECT is an open source software solution that supports health information exchange - both locally and at the national level.

Standards and Specifications

  • Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE)
    IHE promotes the coordinated use of established standards such as the Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine and Health Level Seven International (HL7) to address specific clinical need in support of optimal patient care.
  • Nationwide Health Information Network Specifications
    The 2010 Nationwide Health Information Network Final Production Specifications are located here. The Nationwide Health Information Network Technical Committee has provisionally approved the specifications.
  • Health Level 7
    HL7 is the global authority on standards for interoperability of health information technology with members in over 55 countries.

Testing Tools

  • ONC Interoperability Testing Tool
    A number of tools exist for stakeholders for, implement, and evaluate health IT which includes a wide range of capabilities - some as large as the Federal Health Architecture program or the Nationwide Health Information Network.
  • NIST Testing Suite
    A series of testing tools for promoting the adoption of standards-based interoperability by vendors and users of healthcare information systems.

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