Bobbie Byrne, VP/CIO, Edward Hospital, chats with HIStalk about CCHIT

HIStalk recently interviewed Bobbie Byrne, VP/CIO, Edward Hospital. Here’s what she had to say about her efforts with CCHIT:

If you think about certification, I’ll divide into two phases. One is the formation of CCHIT, which was to help increase adoption of health information technology by removing some of the risk on the buying side, and that CCHIT certification really meant something and that when if you were buying a CCHIT-certified product, it wasn’t going to be perfect, but you could be assured it was going to have some baseline interoperability security and functionality.

I do think that that changed very much the way that people purchased systems. For example, the days of the scripted demos to make sure that you could do long lists of specific feature-function .. those days are gone, and mostly because if it’s a CCHIT-certified product, you can already pull out the long list of feature-function, security, interoperability items that you know the product can do. I really believe very strongly in CCHIT moving the market forward.

Read more of the interview. Or for more insights from Dr. Byrne, visit her blog.