3 Benefits Of The ONC Certification
Health care providers use the data stored in a structured way in an EHR to record, share, retrieve, and transfer patient data to aid patient care. Here one needs to know that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency within the Department of the Health and Human Services (HHS) of the US, administers the nation’s major healthcare programs. The (CMS) Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, along with Office of the National Coordinator for the Health Information Technology (ONC) have established specific standards and some criteria for the structured data usability of the EHRs to qualify in the Promoting Interoperability Programs. A Certified EHR system The Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary requires the EHRs to demonstrate the technological functionality, capability, and security requirements. Upon fulfilling these requirements, the EHR system receives a certification from the Office of National Coordinator (ONC) and thus becomes a certified EHR ...