CCDConnect 1.0
Certified for Inpatient and Ambulatory (Modular)
Dynamic Health IT has received official HITECH Certification of their CCDConnect 1.0 application, which designates that the software is capable of supporting providers with meaningful use measures required to qualify for funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
CCDConnect 1.0, which met the requirements for EHR modular certification, is a solution for vendors, providers, and hospitals to meet CCD/CCR requirements as well as HL7 related requirements. Check out the ONC's Certified Health IT Product listing for CCDConnect 1.0 Inpatient and Ambulatory certification.
CCDConnect 1.0 meets the following certification criteria:
General Domain Criteria (170.302)
170.302 (k) Submission to immunization registries
170.302 (l) Public health surveillance
170.302 (o) Access control
170.302 (p) Emergency access
170.302 (q) Automatic log-off
170.302 (r) Audit log
170.302 (s) Integrity
170.302 (t) Authentication
170.302 (u) General encryption
170.302 (v) Encryption when exchanging electronic health information
Ambulatory Criteria (170.304)
170.304 (f) Electronic copy of health information
170.304 (i) Exchange clinical information and patient summary record
Inpatient Criteria (170.306)
170.306 (d) Electronic copy of health information
170.306 (e) Electronic copy of discharge instructions
170.306 (f) Exchange clinical information and patient summary record
170.306 (g) Reportable lab results
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Custom CCD Clinical Data Exchange
Clinical Document Architecture, the Future of Healthcare Integration |
You're probably heard about the Healthcare IT stimulus money to be made available through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). Funds for healthcare providers depend on "meaningful use" of healthcare information technology. A key component of "meaningful use," that must be demonstrated by 2011 to get maximum funding, is the:
" ...capability to exchange key electronic clinical information among providers of care and patient authorized entities electronically.”
The “legacy” versions of HL7 that we’ve grown accustomed to over the years just aren’t adequate for this demanding challenge. HL7 2.2, HL7 2.3 and even some of the more recent standards are all transaction-based for sending orders, results, charges and other transactional data. What is required for regional and national health data exchange is much more comprehensive.
The HL7 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) standard, with CCD (Continuity of Care Document) is the standard most likely to be required.
Dynamic Health IT and Kestral Computing offer an affordable solution for converting between the HL7 2.x messages that your organization is already using and the CCD documents that will be exchanged with other providers, reporting agencies and Health Information Exchanges (HIE). This solution is wrapped around HL7Connect from Kestral of Australia - a proven interface engine used in hundreds of healthcare organizations here in the U.S. and worldwide.
We call this our custom CCD Solution. This solution utilizes a Microsoft™ SQL Server database and Microsoft scripting technology to accumulate the legacy HL7 messages in a “holding” area (repository). The message data accumulates in the repository until a “trigger” event comes though. The trigger event could be a discharge message or a query. On the basis of the trigger event, we aggregate the HL7 data and produce a XML-based Clinical Document for transmission to a regional or national health data exchange.
This custom solution can also translate CCD and CCR Clinical documents back to legacy HL7 for transmission to EMR’s that don’t have the capability to exchange Clinical Documents.
Please contact us for further information and advice on whether our CCD solutions can address your integration needs.