High Rate of Vendor Turnover in Test EHR Program for Meaningful Use

Apr 9, 2015, 10:25 by Michael Croft
Health Data Management | Epic and Cerner are the latest electronic health record providers to join the Designated Test EHR Program for hospitals attesting to their ability to share information with outside systems, as vendors have departed and been replaced.
April 9, 2015 | Hospitals attesting to Stage 2 Meaningful Use requirements must demonstrate that they can share documents with care centers running different electronic health record (EHR) systems. While the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has provided a "Designated Test EHR Program" to satisfy this requirement, randomly matching hospitals with sample EHR systems, vendors participating in the program have departed and been replaced, with Cerner and Epic the latest providers to make their systems available as test EHRs. Health Data Management