It’s complicated.  That’s how many hospital leaders describe their electronic health records initiatives.  These hospitals – instead of having a neat all-in-one EHR solution driving their efforts – have moved toward electronic records by cobbling together a variety of off-the-shelf, customized and possibly even home-grown solutions.

If you work at one of these facilities, you are probably all too familiar with the complications.  And, when it comes time to get the stamp of approval needed to qualify for incentive funds, you probably don’t know exactly where to start.  No worries. Drummond Group is ready to help. We’re taking applications from hospitals that want to achieve ONC-ATCB 2011/2012 certification for their unique EHR solutions.  We stand ready to help hospitals in this situation move forward by testing their solutions to gain the certification required to move toward meaningful use.

Best of all, though, we are gearing up to truly offer more than a cursory certification.  With more than 10 years of software testing experience, we have the interoperability know-how that you can tap into to truly get your miscellaneous solutions working together as one unified EHR. Having worked in a variety of complicated industries, we have encountered many difficult software and integration testing scenarios – and have had to evaluate a wide variety of software configurations from the simplest, out-of-the-box applications to complicated solutions derived from a variety of cobbled-together software applications.

What’s more, we are truly committed to meeting the specific needs of healthcare providers.  We are presently answering inquiries with hospitals and working on setting up certifications for them.  And, while we are ready to start working with you today to qualify your customized or home-grown system for certification, we plan on rolling all of our know-how up into a formal service offering early next year.

Remember, though, to achieve ONC-ATCB 2011/2012 certification, EHR software has to be tested based on the official criteria as defined by ONC.  Authorized Testing and Certification Bodies (ATCBs) test and certify the software and then HHS approves and lists these certifications on the Certified Health IT Products Listing (CHPL).  Customized programs for hospitals or specific specialties – while designed to help meet the unique needs of various classes of HIT vendors — are not required for the certification that will enable your organization to meet meaningful use incentives.