Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced that its Sentri7 clinical surveillance, documentation and reporting application has received 2011/2012 Electronic Health Record (EHR) modular certification. With this certification, the software is now deemed to be capable of enabling providers to meet the Stage 1 meaningful use measures required to qualify for funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).
Sentri7 was certified on June 25, 2011, under ICSA Labs' EHR Testing and Certification Programme, an ONC-ATCB (Office of the National Coordination Accredited Testing and Certification Body), in accordance with the criteria adopted by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. ICSA Labs is authorised to perform both complete EHR and EHR module testing and certification that demonstrates an organization is appropriately protecting sensitive, private patient information, as well as meeting meaningful use requirements.
As part of the ARRA, also known as the stimulus bill, hospitals can receive financial incentives based on their use of EHRs, but only if they can demonstrate "meaningful use" of the technology. Eligible hospitals who seek to qualify for incentive payments under the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs are required by statute to use Certified EHR Technology and must demonstrate use of a qualified EHR in a meaningful manner.
Sentri7 (sentri7.com) gives hospital staff a single point of access to lab results, medication records and patient demographics, data that previously resided in different systems. Customised rules run against the data to identify and flag at-risk patients.
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