The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT), the private-sector cooperative set up to ensure new health IT products work together, announced last week it is ready to start certifying inpatient – or hospital-based – electronic health record (EHR) products.

CCHIT said it will begin taking applications Aug. 1 for the first batch of products to be tested. The application window for the first quarterly group will be open until Aug. 14. Products that pass the certification review will be announced in late October.

CCHIT’s final criteria for inpatient systems, test scripts and policy documents, are available on its Web site.

The commission has spent most of the past year certifying products associated with outpatient or ambulatory care EHRs. Inpatient systems, which involve intricate, split-second handoffs, are considered more complex.

“Thanks to a year of intensive work by our volunteer workgroups and supporting staff, we are now ready to bring the benefits of certification to the inpatient domain,” said CCHIT Executive Director Alisa Ray in a statement...

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