Office Medicine EHR is "CCHIT Certified" for 2010. The certification issued in March 2007 is valid until 2010. Office Medicine has already started certification process for CCHIT 2011.

Starting in 2010, only the HHS or its designees will certify EHRs against these criteria to determine whether they are suitable for Meaningful Use by physicians who wish to qualify for HITECH incentive payments:

Office Medicine EHR meets all below criteria to quality for "Meaningful Use by physicians who wish to qualify for HITECH incentive payments":

1. Integrated database for active and historical medications
2. Integrated database for active medication allergy
3. Database for demographics including language preference and confidentiality flags
4. Direct e-prescribe checking of drug/drug, drug/allergy and drug/formulary
5. Problem list of active, chronic and resolved diagnoses based on ICD or other classification schemes.
6. Produce and electronically transmit allowable prescriptions
7. Document vital signs, BMI and related patient data
8. Documentation of smoking status and patient advice for smoking cessation
9. Incorporate lab-test results into EHR as database structured fields
10. Generate lists of patients by specific conditions to use for quality improvement, reduction of disparities, and outreach
11. Report ambulatory PQRI quality measures to CMS
12. Send reminders to patients per patient preference for preventive/ follow up care
13. Implement 5 clinical decision support rules relevant to specialty or high clinical priority
14. Check insurance eligibility electronically from public and private payers, when available
15. Submit claims electronically to public and private insurance companies
16. Export an electronic copy of a patient’s their health information (including problem lists and medication lists) upon request
17. Export an electronic copy of patient discharge information and procedures
18. Provide patients with timely electronic access to their health information (including problem lists and medication lists)
19. Provide clinical summary documentation for patients for each visit
20. Capability to exchange an overview of clinical information (ex: problem list, medication list, allergies, test results) among providers of care and patient authorized entities electronically
21. Perform medication reconciliation at relevant encounters and each transition of care
22. Capability to submit electronic data to immunization registries and action submission where required and accepted
23. Capability to provide electronic syndrome surveillance data to public health agencies and electronic data interchange according to applicable law and practice
24. Protect and audit access to electronic health information created or maintained by the EHR using appropriate security measures.
    

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