ONC updates approved test methods

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The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has released an update of its approved test methods for clinical quality measures under the 2014 Edition of the Meaningful Use program.

The 2014 Edition includes Stage 2 criteria and several changes to requirements in Stage 1. The update aligns test methods with a new version of the Cypress open source certification testing tool for capturing, calculating and reporting clinical quality measures under Stage 2. Updates also are available for the National Institute of Standards and Technology Transport Test Tool used with the test methods, also called procedures.

More information is available on the ONC 2014 Testing and Certification Web site, including a list of test methods with specific certification criteria numbers and links to test data. “If there is no test data link, the test data are either not required or supplied by the vendor,” according to ONC.

 

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