List: 29 new products added to ONC's 2015 Certified Health IT database

Epic, Cerner, athenahealth, Allscripts have all certified modules for meaningful use since mid-July.

By Tom Sullivan as seen at Healthcare IT News on September 29, 2017

Since the last time we checked ONC’s Certified Health IT List, back in July, certification bodies have approved the 2015 edition of 29 more products.

Epic, Cerner, athenahealth, Allscripts, InterSystems, McKesson and others, in fact, have joined the list.

As of July 17, 2017, there were 86 vendors in compliance with the 2015 edition. As of today that has risen to 115.

See ONC’s list below:

Edition	Developer	Product	Version	Certification Date
2015	Allscripts	AllScripts FollowMyHealth	2.2.10	29-Dec-16
2015	Allscripts	Allscripts Professional EHR	Version 17.1	5-Apr-17
2015	Allscripts	Sunrise Acute Care	16.3 CU3	1-May-17
2015	Allscripts	Sunrise Ambulatory Care	16.3 CU3	1-May-17
2015	Allscripts	Allscripts TouchWorks EHR	17.1 GA	12-May-17
2015	Allscripts	FollowMyHealth® Universal Health Record	17	30-May-17
2015	Allscripts	dbMotion	17.1	10-Aug-17
2015	Ankhos Oncology Software	Ankhos	4	31-Mar-17
2015	Azalea Health	Azalea EHR	3	10-Aug-17
2015	Better Day Health	Better Day Health	1	14-Aug-17
2015	Callibra, Inc.	Discharge 1-2-3 Composer	1.5	6-Jul-17
2015	Carefluence	Carefluence Open API	1	1-Jul-16
2015	Cerner Corporation	NOVIUS Lab	2015	15-May-17
2015	Cerner Corporation	P2 Sentinel	5.0.4.1	19-Jun-17
2015	Cerner Corporation	Provider Portal	2015	20-Jun-17
2015	Cerner Corporation	PowerChart (Clinical)	2015.01.19	20-Jun-17
2015	Cerner Corporation	FirstNet (Clinical)	2015.01.19	20-Jun-17
2015	Cerner Corporation	Antimicrobial Usage and Resistance Reporting	2017.01	5-Jul-17
2015	Cerner Corporation	Patient Portal - MMD	2015	21-Jul-17
2015	Cerner Corporation	Soarian Document Management	2015	5-Jul-17
2015	Cerner Corporation	HealthSentry	2017.08	23-Aug-17
2015	ChartLogic, Div of Medsphere	ChartLogic Patient Portal	9	14-Aug-17
2015	CitiusTech, Inc.	BI-Clinical	16.09	15-Dec-16
2015	CitiusTech, Inc.	BI-Clinical NZ	16.09	15-Dec-16
2015	Corepoint Health	Corepoint Integration Engine	2016.3	27-Mar-17
2015	CureMD.com, Inc.	CureMD SMART Cloud	10g	5-Jul-17
2015	DrFirst	Rcopia	3	5-Jul-17
2015	DSS, Inc.	vxVistA Ambulatory	Version 15.0.2	28-Aug-17
2015	DSS, Inc.	vxVistA Inpatient	Version 15.0.2	28-Aug-17
2015	Dynamic Health IT, Inc	CQMsolution	3	16-Sep-16
2015	Dynamic Health IT, Inc	CQMsolution	3.1	31-Mar-17
2015	eMed Solutions LLC	eNotes	4.1	5-Jan-17
2015	EMR Direct	Interoperability Engine	2017	17-Nov-16
2015	Encore, An emids Company	CoreANALYTICS	2016.04	20-Dec-16
2015	Encore, An emids Company	CoreANALYTICS	2017.01	31-Mar-17
2015	Epic Systems Corporation	Infection Control Antimicrobial Use and Resistance Reporting	Epic 2017	3-May-16
2015	Epic Systems Corporation	Syndromic Surveillance Reporting	Epic 2017	5-May-16
2015	Epic Systems Corporation	Beaker Reportable Labs Reporting	Epic 2017	5-May-16
2015	Epic Systems Corporation	Beacon Cancer Registry Reporting	Epic 2017	15-Aug-16
2015	Epic Systems Corporation	Beaker Reportable Labs Reporting	Epic 2015	14-Oct-16
2015	Epic Systems Corporation	Syndromic Surveillance Reporting	Epic 2015	14-Oct-16
2015	Epic Systems Corporation	EpicCare Inpatient EHR Suite	Epic 2015	9-Dec-16
2015	Epic Systems Corporation	EpicCare Ambulatory EHR Suite	Epic 2015	9-Dec-16
2015	Epic Systems Corporation	EpicCare Ambulatory EHR Suite	Epic 2017	3-Apr-17
2015	Epic Systems Corporation	EpicCare Inpatient EHR Suite	Epic 2017	23-Aug-17
2015	Equicare Health Incorporated	EQUICARE CS	Version 4.5	1-Dec-16
2015	Evident	Thrive EHR	19	3-Feb-17
2015	Evident	Thrive Provider EHR	19	3-Feb-17
2015	Evident	Thrive EHR	20	23-Aug-17
2015	Evident	Thrive Provider EHR	20	23-Aug-17
2015	FairWarning® Technologies, Inc.	FairWarning® Patient Privacy Monitoring	4	8-Jun-17
2015	FIGmd Inc.	FIGMD Registry Platform	7	3-Jan-17
2015	Greenway Health, LLC	SuccessEHS	9	12-Jun-17
2015	Health eFilings, LLC	MIPS Accelerator	5.0.0	23-Jan-17
2015	Healthland	Healthland Centriq CQM Dashboard	11	22-Dec-16
2015	Healthland	Healthland Clinical Information System CQM Dashboard	9.7	22-Dec-16
2015	Healthland	Centriq	12	23-Aug-17
2015	Healthland	Centriq Clinic	12	23-Aug-17
2015	Henry Schein Medical Systems	MicroMD EMR	13.5	20-Jul-17
2015	ICS Software, Ltd.	SammyEHR	V6.2	14-Sep-17
2015	Inpriva, Inc.	hDirect Network Services	2.1	11-Jul-17
2015	Insync Healthcare Solutions LLC	Insync PM/EMR	9	19-May-17
2015	InterSystems Corp.	HealthShare Information Exchange	15.03	10-Aug-17
2015	InterSystems Corp.	HealthShare Personal Community	12.2	10-Aug-17
2015	Iron Bridge Integration, Inc.	Pub Hub	V 2.0	28-Jun-17
2015	Kirkland Spinecare	Cerebella 2010	V 9.5	30-Dec-16
2015	LifeSource Health, Inc.	AtTheScene	V1.0	13-Mar-17
2015	Lightbeam Health Solutions, Inc.	Lightbeam Population Health Management	Version 2.1	29-Dec-16
2015	Maize Analytics	Explanation Based Auditing System	1.04	21-Jul-17
2015	McKesson	McKesson Lab	16	27-Oct-16
2015	McKesson	McKesson Lab	15.1	8-Mar-17
2015	McKesson	Paragon® for Hospitals 2015 Certified EHR	14.1	21-Jul-17
2015	MedAllies	MedAllies Direct Solutions	v3.4	3-Apr-17
2015	Medfusion, Inc.	Medfusion Patient Portal	17.1	13-Mar-17
2015	MEDHOST	MEDHOST EDIS	2017 R1	1-Dec-16
2015	MEDHOST	MEDHOST Enterprise	2017 R1 - eRx	26-Jan-17
2015	MEDHOST	MEDHOST Enterprise	2017 R1 - Financials	26-Jan-17
2015	MEDHOST	MEDHOST Enterprise	2017 R1 - Clinicals	26-Jan-17
2015	MEDHOST	MEDHOST EDIS	2017 R1	17-Apr-17
2015	MEDHOST	MEDHOST Business Intelligence	V5.1	30-May-17
2015	MEDHOST	MEDHOST Enterprise - eRx	2017 R2	6-Jul-17
2015	MEDHOST	MEDHOST Enterprise - Financials	2017 R2	6-Jul-17
2015	MEDHOST	MEDHOST Enterprise - Clinicals	2017 R2	6-Jul-17
2015	Medical Transcription Billing Corp. (MTBC)	TalkEHR	1	3-Feb-17
2015	Medisolv Inc	ENCOR-e	Version 5	31-Jul-17
2015	Millennium Information Services, LLC	Millennium Information Services	2017.1	11-Apr-17
2015	ModuleMD	ModuleMD WISE	9	28-Jul-16
2015	Netsmart Technologies	myAvatar Certified Edition	2017.01	20-Mar-17
2015	NextGen Healthcare	NextGen Ambulatory EHR	5.9	2-Jun-17
2015	Nexus Health Resources, Inc.	NexusConnexions	1	9-Nov-16
2015	OSEHRA	OSEHRA popHealth	5	14-Mar-17
2015	Park Avenue Capital, LLC dba MaxMD	MaxMD Direct mdEmail	Version 3.0 SOAP	9-Feb-17
2015	PatientClick, Inc.	PatientClick	5	8-Dec-16
2015	Practice Fusion	Practice Fusion EHR	3.7	14-Aug-17
2015	Premier, Inc	TheraDoc	4.7	5-Jul-17
2015	Progression Systems, LLC	PSNet	v2.20.271	8-Dec-16
2015	Protenus, Inc.	Protenus Platform	2	27-Feb-17
2015	Roji Health Intelligence LLC	Roji Registry	Version 2016	2-Feb-17
2015	SCC Soft Computer	SoftLab	4.0.7	15-May-17
2015	SCC Soft Computer	SoftLab	4.0.8	6-Jul-17
2015	Secure Exchange Solutions	SES Direct	Version 2.0	17-Feb-17
2015	SocialCare by Health Symmetric, Inc.	SocialCare Open API Platform	Version 1.0	15-Dec-16
2015	SRS-Health	SRS EHR	v10	27-Jul-17
2015	Summit Healthcare Services, Inc.	Summit Express Connect	9.4	3-Nov-16
2015	Summit Healthcare Services, Inc.	Summit Exchange	1.2	17-Nov-16
2015	Tecurologic	PediNotes	5.1	14-Sep-17
2015	TRIARQ Practice Services	gloSuite	TORSA	30-Jan-17
2015	UnisLink	UnisLink iCMS� (Intelligent Care Management Suite)	v2.0	13-Dec-16
2015	Updox	Updox	2016	20-Jul-17
2015	Updox	Updox	2016.1	20-Jul-17
2015	Varian Medical Systems	360 Oncology Patient Portal	1	28-Jun-17
2015	VigiLanz Corporation	Dynamic Antimicrobial Stewardship Dynamic Pharmacy Surveillance	2017	16-Feb-17
2015	YourCareUniverse, Inc.	YourCareUniverse API	V8.0	26-Jan-17
2015	YourCareUniverse, Inc.	YourCareUniverse Health Portal with YourCareEverywhere App	V8.5	24-Apr-17
2015	YourCareUniverse, Inc.	YourCareUniverse Health Portal with YourCareEverywhere App	V9.0	30-May-17
2015	YourCareUniverse, Inc.	YourCareUniverse Health Portal with YourCareEverywhere App	V9.5	20-Jul-17

Baby steps: Doctor develops electronic medical record for neonatal intensive care units

Dr. Steven Spedale, chief of neonatology for Woman's Hospital and Ochsner Medical Center — Baton Rouge, has developed an electronic medical record that doctors actually. One of EMRs' big bugaboos has been physician adoption. Lots of doctors say the software is a barrier rather than a help. Spedale said his PediNotes system is designed to work the way that physicians are trained to practice.

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BY TED GRIGGS as seen at TheAdvocate.com

Frustration with an electronic medical record system’s limitations pushed Dr. Steven Spedale to develop his own for neonatal intensive care units, and he now is marketing PediNotes nationally.

Spedale is chief of neonatology at the Woman's Hospital and Ochsner Medical Center — Baton Rouge. In 1999, Woman's and Ochsner introduced an electronic medical record. Spedale's practice quickly bumped against the EMR's limitations, limitations the developer had no plans to address.

"He didn't want to do the electronic ordering. He didn't want to do the medication part of the program. Those are the risky parts of the software because if the medication is not right and you order the wrong thing, you could hurt somebody," Spedale said.

So Spedale hired some software developers. They came up with an add-on for electronic orders, then one for medication, then one for billing. The developers also wrote programs that sent physicians updates on their patients.

People started asking Spedale to sell them the add-ons, but he declined. While his software improved the underlying EMR, Spedale didn't think the product was commercially viable as a separate offering. But by 2007, the team had done so much development that Spedale started Tecurologic, a software development company and the eventual parent of PediNotes. By 2012, the company had a commercial version of PediNotes, and Woman's and Ochsner began using the software.

They remain the only users, which has allowed Spedale to break even despite a pretty significant personal investment. But six months ago, PediNotes began a national push. The developers had achieved interoperability, meaning the software can communicate with different computer systems. That's important because PediNotes "sits" on top of the other big EMRs — the Epics, Cerners and Meditechs of the world — and allows the end user to work on one platform.

"So it kind of doesn't matter what hospital I'm in, I can work in the same software program. When you're dealing with critical-care patients, you don't want to have to remember, 'OK, I'm in hospital A, I have to do it this way. I'm in Hospital B, I have to do it this way,'" Spedale said.

EMRs began as something like the digital version of a patient's chart. Electronic health records, or EHRs, were software systems that included EMRs and other general health information on the patient. In theory, EHRs could share that information with other providers. But as Becker's Hospital Review recently pointed out, EMRs and EHRs now share many similarities, and many people use the terms interchangeably.

In 2017, the EMR/EHR market is valued at $29.6 billion, according to Kalorama Information, a medical markets research firm. Although more than 1,000 EMR software companies exist, Cerner, Epic and Meditech control two-thirds of the U.S. market. At present, those firms limit the number of modifications users can make to their products because the developers, like Apple, can't support all of the customizations.

However, Lesley Kadlec, director of practice excellence at The American Health Information Management Association, expects that to change.

As physicians and other clinicians become more adept at using EHRs, they will want to modify them or buy a product that fits the needs of their particular practices.

"I think you'll start to see more and more specialization," Kadlec said.

So it's not surprising that there's a specific product for neonatal intensive care units. NICUs have to monitor everything 24 hours per day. Tracking the food and fluids going into and out of a 2-pound newborn requires specialized tools, she said. It makes sense to design one that helps doctors capture that information as easily and efficiently as possible.

The need to capture specific information by specialty explains why there are EHRs for everything from emergency departments and outpatient surgery to ophthalmology and obstetrics, she said.

Spedale's market is the roughly 800 Neonatal Intensive Care Units in the United States, and then NICUs worldwide. This year, PediNotes has marketed itself at a handful of trade shows and recently launched a national marketing campaign, targeting large hospital systems and their IT departments.

Those systems spend tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars on their main EHRs and as much as 20 percent of that each year for ongoing maintenance, Spedale said. PediNotes might cost a regional-sized NICU $50,000 or $100,000, "not even a blip" on a hospital's IT budget.

Despite the relatively low cost, convincing all of the U.S. NICUs to use his software is unlikely, Spedale said. His initial goal is far more modest: 10 centers in two years.

More specifically, PediNotes wants to sign one of the 120 Meditech centers in the U.S. PediNotes is already being used by a Cerner center and an Epic center.

Once PediNotes hits 10 centers, Spedale plans to double the number of customers every two years. He believes that goal is realistic because his product has a major advantage over most EHRs: it's designed to work the way physicians practice.

"When you are trained clinically, whether you are a doctor, a nurse, a nurse practitioner, whatever, from the way you examine a patient from head to toe, from the way you approach problems, from the way you document problems, there's just a certain standard way that everyone is taught," Spedale said. "So what we really did was put some things in the software to kind of mimic that."

One way PediNotes does that is by putting everything the doctor needs to treat a particular health issue on one page so there's no clicking back and forth from tab to tab. For example, if the issue involves a baby's lungs, the physician can address the patient's breathing, oxygen levels and lab tests on one page rather than clicking back and forth on separate tabs for the lab, X-ray, blood gases or orders.

"That's something that comes from being a physician because that's just how we think. If I'm working on a particular problem, I need all these bits and pieces of information to make a diagnosis, to make a plan," Spedale said. "So what we do is we go in and get all those pieces of information and put it right there for you so you don't have to click around."

The software also allows users to arrange the screens however they wish. So if a doctor wants the patient's vital signs and labs in the upper right corner of the screen, he or she can move it there.

"Whatever works for you to help you take better care of the patient, that's what's important to me," Spedale said. "It's foolish for me to think I know exactly what you need."

Spedale's approach is something of a departure from many EHR products. Although more than two-thirds of doctors use an electronic medical record system, many say the software doesn't help them do a better job. A 2016 study in Annals of Internal Medicine estimated doctors spend close to half their time on EHRs and desk work and just 27 percent with patients

Spedale said one reason PediNotes is different is that it has undergone years of rigorous and brutal testing at Woman's and Ochsner, he said. If something doesn't work for the doctors, they usually let him know within 24 hours.

The whole point of PediNotes is to help the clinician take better care of the patient, Spedale said. Software is a tool. It shouldn't get in the way of the physician or the practitioner or the nurse.

"If my software is making someone change the way they practice medicine, then I think that's bad software," he said.