FairWarning’s privacy monitoring solutions have received certification from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Officer of the Coordinator’s Health Information Technology (ONC HIT) Certification Program.
The Meaningful Use Modular Certification means that electronic health records (EHR) solutions utilizing FairWarning can help medical practices meet the technological, capability and security requirements associated with “meaningful use.”
Meaningful use requirements give patients confidence that practices using EHR solutions are actually implementing the technology to provide better patient care. Their doctors aren’t just signing up for EHR technology; they’re actually putting the technology to use to improve services to their patients.
Meeting meaningful use requirements makes medical practices and hospitals eligible for incentive payments from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). So far, the CMS has developed 25 different objectives for meaningful use.
Medicare eligible professionals who qualify for the EHR incentive program can receive up to $44,000 over five continuous years. Starting in 2015, if a medical practice doesn’t meet requirements, its Medicare payments will be increased by one percent.
The penalty will increase each year that the practice does not meet meaningful use requirements, to a maximum of five percent.
By obtaining certification, FairWarning hopes to allow its clients to focus on other criteria, besides security, in the quest for meaningful use and incentive payments.
“We are pleased that this certification enables our customers to take advantage of best-of-breed technology and support, and fulfill their auditing requirements for meaningful use, while eliminating the need to certify at the field level, thereby reducing costs,” said Shane Whitlatch, who is executive VP of Global Alliances and Sales Operations for FairWarning.
Specifically, the certification applies to versions 2.9 and 3.1 of FairWarning’s software. The company is the first to be certified under ONC 2014 test methods.
Edited by
Brooke Neuman
