Certification of EMR's: one or many standards bodies? #health20fr

Chris Thorman, The author of an interesting blogpost on the standards bodies related to EMR's contacted me and asked that I encourage my network to vote on his survey. Please read his post and vote!

Chris's question regards the future of the CCHIT, who used to be the single certifying body, designated by the Department of Health and Human Services, and now finds itself one amongst many both private and public. 

In August 2009, the "National Coordinator for Health IT, said that it would be in the best interest of the healthcare industry to have multiple entities certifying EHR software." So, what will happen to CCHIT?

Chris also points out the handy Health IT standards and testing site for those of you who are interested in the subject: http://healthcare.nist.gov/index.html

The subject is also interesting, because we've been complaining about the existence of a variety of standards bodies in the field of health care web site quality and how debilitating that has been for momentum. But EMR standards and web site quality are two different fields...To be continued.