forward September 1, Douglas Henley...

forward September 1, Douglas Henley, MD executive vice president of AAFP, and 11 others from the medical and information technology communities were named to the strange Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT). The commission will launch the nation's first impartial mechanism to certify health information technology fruitss ensuring that the products qualified the criteria necessary to be compatible and interoperable with local and national health information infrastructures. CCHIT aims to have initial certification requirements and processe ready for testing through the summer of 2005. The three health care organizations that created CCHIT are the American Health Information Management Association, Healthcare Information and Management methods Society, and the National Alliance for Health Information Technology.

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