NextGen, GE earn PMS accreditation from EHNAC
GE Healthcare and NextGen Healthcare are the first two organizations to achieve accreditation under the Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission's (EHNAC) Practice Management System Accreditation Program (PMSAP).
Jointly developed with the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI), PMSAP has been designed to serve as a third-party review and provide an additional level of assurance to the provider community during the evaluation process of PMS system vendors.
The accreditation program offers a comprehensive evaluation of practice management system (PMS) vendors in the areas of privacy, security, mandated standards and operating rules and key operational functions.
Additionally, the PMSAP assesses health information and oversight for meeting privacy and security, HIPAA and Affordable Care Act requirements, as well as focuses on technical performance, business processes and resource management. The program also provides a review of the PMS vendor readiness to support and implement ICD-10 in 2015 and therefore a level of assurance to the provider community.
As beta participants throughout the consultative and consensus-driven process of program development, GE Healthcare and NextGen Healthcare were the first to undergo evaluation on their compliance with the criteria and receive full accreditation status for the two-year timeframe, according to a release.
"As beta organizations for the PMS accreditation program, GE Healthcare and NextGen Healthcare's collaboration and feedback have been vital components in the development of an industry-changing initiative," said Lee Barrett, executive director of EHNAC. "The need to maintain high standards of privacy, security and confidentiality as a practice management system vendor is critical, to say the least."
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