The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) administers Electronic Health Care Record (EHR) Incentive Programs to encourage eligible healthcare organizations to adopt, implement, upgrade or demonstrate meaningful use of certified EHR technology. To encourage widespread adoption of interoperable Health Information Technology (HIT), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in collaboration with the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health IT, is implementing a program for the voluntary certification of HIT products to ensure compliance with the meaningful use technical requirements and standards.

Electrosoft is pleased to announce our active participation and support to NIST in furthering progress on the HIT certification program. Through a number of task orders issued to Electrosoft over the past 2.5 years, we are helping NIST in the following areas:

• Developing, reviewing and documenting test procedures and conformance test tools for Stage 2 Meaningful Use and Electronic Health Record (EHR) certification.
• Validating that conformance testing tools within the NIST HIT Testing Infrastructure satisfy the requirements of HL7 v.2, Clinical Document Architecture (CDA), and Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS). 
• Supporting development and adoption of standards / technology to support Meaningful Use testing of the Direct Transport Standard through implementation of PKI Certificate Authority services.
• Collaborating with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and HL7 members to promote the development of a common web-based tool (Immunization Information Systems) to advance the adoption of HIT.

Electrosoft is proud to be a part of the historic transformation of healthcare delivery services by fostering the widespread adoption of open, available, secure and interoperable standards and technologies that help to improve the accessibility and outcomes of healthcare services for our citizens.