The Certification Commission for Healthcare IT has announced plans to offer certification programs for electronic health record systems targeting women's health and cancer specialists, InformationWeek reports.
CCHIT made its announcement during the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's 2010 conference in Atlanta (Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek, 3/2).
The American Society of Clinical Oncology and the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists will collaborate with CCHIT in creating the criteria for the certification program.
CCHIT said it will begin recruiting voluntary work group members through its Web site from March 16 through April 16. The commission will announce the work group members in June (Goedert, Health Data Management, 3/1).
The women's health and oncology certification tracks are among several of CCHIT's programs that target medical specialties (InformationWeek, 3/2).