ryanjo,
I think if you are able to trust Jon with building AC and you use it to run your practice, you should be able to also trust that he is making the best decision for his customers and his company.
You are not a developer, and neither are you involved in the day to day running of a software enterprise, thus I'm not quite sure where the overarching concern about CCHIT "not working" comes from, other than it is a "government chartered organization," or as Alborg claimed "a criminal enterprise."
The last time I checked, the FCC is a government organization, and it has done an excellent job ensuring that telephones (cellular, land, etc) work very well together.
From Intel's website
Universal Serial Bus (USB) is a set of connectivity specifications developed by Intel in collaboration with industry leaders.
Intel formed the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) in 1995 with other industry players to support and accelerate market and consumer adoption of USB-compliant peripherals. Today, the USB-IF has over 700 member companies worldwide, and the Board of Directors is comprised of representatives from Hewlett-Packard, Intel Corporation, LSI Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, NEC Corporation, and ST-NXP Wireless.
From Wiki
FireWire is Apple Inc.'s name for the IEEE 1394 High Speed Serial Bus. It was initiated by Apple (in 1986[2]) and developed by the IEEE P1394 Working Group, largely driven by contributions from Apple, although major contributions were also made by engineers from Texas Instruments, Sony, Digital Equipment Corporation, IBM, and INMOS/SGS Thomson (now STMicroelectronics).
