Compulink’s Advantage/EHR Named a CCHIT Certified® 2011 Ambulatory EHR

Leading EHR among first to earn most current CCHIT certification.

Westlake Village, CA, January 6, 2010 – Compulink Business Systems, the leader in electronic health records (EHR) and practice management software, today announced that Compulink’s Advantage/EHR (Electronic Health Record) version 10 has earned its designation as a premarket conditionally CCHIT Certified® 2011 Ambulatory EHR in the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology’s (CCHIT®) Comprehensive certification program.

CCHIT Certified® certification designates that Compulink’s Advantage/EHR version 10 has been tested against the most comprehensive set of existing criteria related to items such as interoperability, privacy and security, and functionality. As a premarket conditionally CCHIT Certified 2011 Ambulatory EHR, Advantage/EHR version 10 has passed inspection of 100 percent of these criteria.

“We believe our early receipt of this certification represents both our delivering on a commitment we made to our clients, as well as our continued investment in offering providers the best EHR solution in the industry,” states Link Wilson, President and CEO of Compulink.  “Earlier this year we introduced a program offering clients a money-back guarantee that we’d pass all proposed EHR certification requirements in time to earn them the maximum in stimulus incentives.  Now that we’ve delivered on that promise, we’re raising the bar for the industry with our “EHR Success Guarantee” program.  This program is designed to reduce both the cost and risk to providers by guaranteeing they’ll successfully implement an EHR system or they owe us nothing.”

“The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) incentives have the potential to significantly accelerate adoption of EHR technology by office-based physicians, other eligible providers and hospitals,” said Alisa Ray, CCHIT executive director. “Companies demonstrating their compliance with the proposed Federal standards are able to offer certified products to providers who wish to purchase and implement EHR technology and achieve meaningful use in time for the 2011-2012 incentives.”

In response to the new requirements of ARRA, as well as ongoing Federal rulemaking activities, the Certification Commission launched two distinct programs of certification on October 7, 2009. In addition to its established CCHIT Certified® Comprehensive programs, CCHIT also launched a more limited, modular Preliminary ARRA certification program.

The CCHIT Certified 2011 Comprehensive program is differentiated from the Preliminary ARRA program by providing a rigorous, multi-faceted evaluation of integrated EHR functionality, interoperability and security. In addition, certified products meet or exceed applicable proposed Federal standards – those that exist on the date of certification – for certified EHR technology to support the 2011-2012 incentives under ARRA. Proposed Federal standards were updated on December 30, 2009, after the inspection of Compulink’s Advantage/EHR. As part of the inspection, key aspects of successful use are verified at live sites, and product usability is rated.