Wow - some thread...
I don't want to get into this in detail (yet), but the bottom line - as you note above - Amazing Charts will need to be eligible for whatever federal dollars and future EHR technical specs are required (like tying to RHIOs, vaccine registries, etc). I may not like that certification is required, as it hampers the ability for lean and mean companies like Amazing Charts to offer new and unique approaches to maximizing reimbursement and making the practice of medicine easier for us (the providers).
Our healthcare system, in a word, sucks. We have to see more and more patients just to break even, and are not compensated nearly enough considering that we are dealing with the most precious aspect of our patient's lives - namely their lives.
But I digress.. the bottom line is that to compete, we must be certified with whatever silliness they throw at us. CCHIT is the first hurdle, and we are now working diligently on getting CCHIT certified and adding the myriad of requirements needed to pass - and are working to do so in a way that doesn't ruin the simplicity and usability of Amazing Charts.
We hope to be certified by mid-2009.
