News: Press Releases: 5-21-2008

Wellogic Announces CCHIT Certification of Ambulatory EHR Solution

Wellogic Consult, in Combination with GBA Health Network Systems' MEDfx, Complies with 100 Percent of Updated 2007 Electronic Health Record (EHR) Certification Criteria

In the second year of the program's operation, the criteria and testing have been significantly enhanced. The Commission added 96 criteria to the 151 original requirements from last year. As a CCHIT Certified product, the combined solution of Wellogic Consult and GBA MEDfx has been tested and passed inspection of 100 percent of a set of updated criteria for functionality, interoperability and security.

"For 2007, the Commission raised the bar from the previous year's criteria. Ambulatory EHRs now must include electronic prescribing, demonstrate an ability to receive lab results, and show enhanced patient safety, quality, and security features," said Mark Leavitt, M.D., Ph.D., chair, CCHIT. "Investment in 2007 certified ambulatory EHRs gives providers even more powerful tools to improve quality, safety and efficiency while protecting the privacy of health information."

The CCHIT Certified mark – a "seal of approval" for EHR products – provides the first consensus-based, government-recognized benchmark for ambulatory EHR products. By looking to products with the CCHIT Certified seal, physicians and other providers can reduce their risk in selecting an EHR product, allowing them to focus their evaluation on the special needs of their practices.

"We believe that the benchmarking that CCHIT provides is absolutely crucial to the industry," said William Mitchell, President and CEO of Maui Medical Group. "Wellogic's product certification, in combination with GBA Health Network Systems' product, validates our choice of their product to offer to our team of more than 50 physicians and 200 clinical users across three locations. The usability of Wellogic's EHR, their total connectivity with our trading partners and data suppliers, their commitment to standards, and their obvious dedication to the success of this project in our organization set Wellogic apart from the pack. Working with Wellogic is enabling us to raise the standard of care in Hawaii, and we congratulate them on this accomplishment."

"CCHIT certification represents a milestone for product certification in what has been a fragmented industry," said Sumit Nagpal, President and CEO of Wellogic. "It enables buyers to compare EHRs consistently and allows certified products to differentiate from one another based on their own unique strengths. We are delighted to have our product achieve this certification, and believe that it enables EHR adopters to consider our substantial innovations that set us apart. We will continue to differentiate ourselves based on our usability, flexibility, scalability, and depth of compliance."

CCHIT's certification compliance criteria and its design for a certification inspection process have been thoroughly researched, taking into account the state of the art of EHRs and available standards, and comparing certification processes in other industries and other countries. The inspection process is based on real-life medical scenarios designed to test products rigorously against the clinical needs of providers and the quality and safety needs of healthcare consumers and payers. One script, for example, recreates a scenario of an elderly man with poorly controlled diabetes, hypertension, and other chronic conditions in order to test EHR functions such as potential adverse drug reactions, disease management and treatment plans.

About Wellogic

Wellogic provides clinical software solutions for connecting the healthcare community. With more than a decade of experience providing interoperability solutions for healthcare, the company truly understands its complexity. It has developed a depth of experience in solving some of the most challenging issues confronting the industry today. Wellogic's award-winning Web-based connectivity solutions for physicians and caregivers, patients, health systems and health information exchanges are consistently recognized as the most usable, flexible and scalable solutions available, and are used daily to deliver safer, more cost effective care across millions of patient records. For more information, visit www.wellogic.com.

About CCHIT

The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT®) is an independent, nonprofit organization that has been named by the federal government as the Recognized Certification Body for health information technology. Its mission is to accelerate the adoption of health information technology by creating a credible, sustainable certification program. The certification requirements are based on widely accepted industry standards and involve the work of hundreds of expert volunteers and input from a variety of stakeholders throughout the health care industry. More information on CCHIT and CCHIT Certified® products is available at www.cchit.org.

"CCHIT®" and "CCHIT Certified®" are service marks of the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology.