LSS Awarded CCHIT Certification^SM

The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT^SM) has confirmed that MEDITECH's partner vendor, LSS Data Systems, has achieved full CCHIT Certification^SM of the Client/Server (C/S) Medical and Practice Management (MPM) Suite, Version 5.5 (Service Release 2.1) for CCHIT Ambulatory EHR 2006. CCHIT certified^SM product certification designates that this product has been tested against a comprehensive set of functionality, interoperability, and security criteria and has passed inspection of 100 percent of the criteria. LSS has also announced its intent to seek CCHIT Ambulatory EHR 2006 Certification of another Ambulatory EHR product, its MAGIC Medical and Practice Management (MPM) Suite, Version 5.5, toward the end of 2006.

Citizens Memorial Healthcare (Bolivar, MO) is the first MEDITECH/LSS customer to go LIVE with the latest version of the C/S MPM Suite. "We're very excited to receive LSS's latest update and want to congratulate them on achieving certification," said Denni McColm, chief information officer at Citizens. More information can be found on the CCHIT Web site.

CCHIT is currently developing its criteria for inpatient EHR certification. MEDITECH is participating in this process, and will apply for certification when the application period opens.

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