Finally, Jon Bertman has already stated that AC will be CCHIT Certified.
While there are those who like AC just the way it is, Jon surely understands that AC is a business, and he has to position it to be competitive, or his business will not survive. He has already made the decision to move forward...
I remember back in the early 90's I did some consulting work for WordPerfect on their foray into electronic forms. I called up the Product Manager and told him I was having difficulty printing a form. He told me that Print in WordPerfect was not CTRL-P but SHIFT-F7. I told him in Windows every app supported the Windows print standard. He proceeded to tell me that WP users preferred WP to Windows and blah, blah, blah! Today the question is "what is word perfect?"
Then there was Borland's Phillipe Khan...who developed this great programming language tool called Delphi, just as MS was rolling out Visual Basic 6. Khan developed Delphi to challenge and take market share from Visual Basic. Instead he got into a "standards" battle with the various component makers.
He decided rather than making Delphi ActiveX compatible he was going to use VCL. The large component makers did not have the resources to build and sell VCL components so Delphi whithered on the vine.
These are only two examples of what can happen to TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES that REFUSE STANDARDS. There are so many more.
