Surescripts Meaningful Use Services – E-Prescribing Certification & Testing (EPCAT)℠:
Assure your customers that their EHR has the capability to meet the e-prescribing criteria to qualify for Medicare or Medicaid incentives in Stage 1 of Meaningful Use.
Overview of Surescripts Meaningful Use Services
Surescripts has been approved by the National Coordinator to
provide testing and certification services for Meaningful Use as an
Authorized Testing and Certification Body (ONC-ATCB) under the
temporary certification program instituted by the Office of the
National Coordinator (ONC) as outlined in Part III of 45 CFR 170
(March 10, 2010).
As an ONC-ATCB, Surescripts has the capacity to certify Electronic
Health Record (EHR) Modules for electronic prescribing against test
data approved by ONC as recommended by the National Institute of
Standards and Technology (NIST). The test data is available in the
NIST-published test procedure, Test Procedure for §170.304 (b)
Electronic Prescribing, available at http://healthcare.nist.gov/docs/170.304.b_ExchangePrescriptionInformation_v1.0.pdf
Surescripts is approved to evaluate the capability of an EHR
Module to electronically generate and transmit new prescriptions
for patients in accordance with the certification criteria defined
in 45 CFR Part 170 Subpart C of the Final Rule for Health
Information Technology: Initial Set of standards, Implementation
Specifications, and Certification Criteria for Electronic Health
Record Technology as published in the Federal Register on July 28,
2010. Per ONC guidance, this test procedure will evaluate
conformance with the NCPDP SCRIPT v8.1 NEWRX transaction when used
to transmit a new prescription from a prescriber to a
pharmacy.
This certification is for purposes of meaningful use only.
Surescripts Meaningful Use Services - E-Prescribing Certification
& Testing (EPCAT) will not enable an EHR technology vendor and
its end users to access the Surescripts network without further
Surescripts network certification.
A comprehensive listing of Complete EHRs and EHR Modules that have been tested and certified under the Temporary Certification Program maintained by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) can be found at http://onc-chpl.force.com/ehrcert.
A list of frequently asked questions regarding Surescripts Meaningful Use Services can be found here.
Application Process
EHR vendors who are interested in Surescripts Meaningful Use
Services - E-Prescribing Certification & Testing (EPCAT) should
complete the form at the following
link.
Once your information is received by Surescripts the application
process is as follows:
1. The Surescripts legal department will send a Contract and
Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA). Note that a new NDA may not be
required for existing network participants.
2. Legal questions will be answered and the Contracts can be
negotiated with the Legal department. Business inquiries that do
not involve advising on certification may be addressed to the
Clients and Markets department.
3. Surescripts will send relevant documentation upon receiving
your signed contract and NDA
Note that if you are applying for both meaningful use
certification/testing and Surescripts network certification
simultaneously, meaningful use certification/testing will take
precedence.
