Certification

Should EHR vendors certify their system for Meaningful Use?

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question3Sort’a implies it’s time to put up or shut up. Tell your vendor to tie that to the contract.

However, then the onus falls back on the provider. If the software is only 80% of the work, the provider better have one PMO killer team standing by who knows change management, work flow improvement, training, user acceptance. Oh, I let’s not forget that both parties are aiming for a moving target.

The good news. I think Meaningful Use will die off as a requirement before we get to 2012.

The tag line. If you buy something that can’t pass Meaningful Use, there’s nobody to blame but the face in the mirror.

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Certification may be of zero value to the healthcare provider

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Certification Tax

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TaxReadyIsn’t certification nothing more than a tax on healthcare providers?  Or, has someone seen some value in being certifed other than paying money to get money?  For the large providers, the ARRA money will amount to little more than a rounding error on the total cost of their EHR.

I encourage you to look at John’s post about the cost of certifcation, http://www.emrandhipaa.com/emr-and-hipaa/2009/09/14/cost-of-new-cchit-ehr-certifications/comment-page-1/#comment-120681

It seems like a lot of money for no ROI.

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Certification & Meaningulful Use

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Doctor cartoon bad funny silly goodHere’s a comment I made to John’s Blog, http://www.emrandhipaa.com/emr-and-hipaa/2009/09/12/preliminary-arra-certified-and-cchit-certified/.  Any time I need details,this blog is my first stop.

My 2 takeaways are the phrase to “justify meaningful use”, and the question about whether anyone should worry about any of this. Meaning no slight to those working on this, I think that with each new bit of information on Cert & Meaningful Use, the less likely it is that either will be relevant.

A word to healthcare providers who are implementing EHR. Do not use these benchmarks as your guidelines. Do not use ARRA as a business reason to implement an EHR. If you make an EHR decision as though Washington played no role in the decision, and make your selection of an EHR based on your actual business requirements, Certification and Meaningful Use will not matter. I believe we will learn that the only test that will matter is interoperability. The sooner we learn that under the present framework interoperability can’t happen, the sooner we will get to a solution that will work.

Here’s my take away.  Meaningful Use has no meaningful use.

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