Certification Commission For Healthcare Information Technology - Stakeholders

Stakeholders

Certified EHR products benefit many interested groups and individuals:

• Physicians, hospitals, health care systems, safety net providers, public health agencies and other purchasers of HIT products, who seek quality, interoperability, data portability and security
• Purchasers and payers – from government to the private sector – who are prepared to offer financial incentives for HIT adoption but need the assurance of having a mechanism in place to ensure that products deliver the expected benefits
• Quality improvement organizations that seek out an efficient means of measuring that criteria have been assessed and met
• Standards development and informatics experts that gain consensus on standards
• Vendors who benefit from having to meet a single set of criteria and from having a voice in the process
• Healthcare consumers, ultimately the most important stakeholders, who will benefit from a reliable, accurate and secure record of their health

CCHIT and its volunteer workgroups strive to fairly represent the interests of each of these diverse groups in an open forum, communicating the progress of its work and seeking input from all quarters. CCHIT has received the endorsements of a number of professional medical organizations, including the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Physicians, the Physicians' Foundation for Health Systems Excellence and Physicians' Foundation for Health Systems Innovation.