Someone has to take responsibility for the security and privacy issues attendant to the Internet of Things. In this guest essay posted on ThirdCertainty, George Japak, managing director of ICSA Labs, a vendor-neutral testing and certification organization, outlines who that should be.

CliniComp, Intl., a global provider of hospital-wide clinical documentation systems and Electronic Health Record (EHR) solutions, has achieved ONC HIT 2014 Edition Complete Inpatient and Ambulatory EHR certification for CliniComp|EHR version 213.02. This milestone designates that CliniComp’s software is capable of supporting eligible hospitals and eligible providers with meeting the Stage 1 and Stage 2 Meaningful Use measures required to qualify for funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).

...One year later in 2014, HIMSS (PODCAST), IHE USA, the EHR|HIE Interoperability Working Group (IWG) and ICSA Labs announced a new strategic partnership that will take previous testing and certification to a new level – bringing the industry closer to reducing the need to build costly one-off customized interfaces and delivering robust, scalable, and secure exchange of patient data.

Napier Healthcare, a leading healthcare technology and services provider, today announced that the company’s Hospital Information System (HIS), Version 2 .1 has achieved ONC HIT 2014 Edition Complete EHR Certification, which designates that the software is capable of supporting eligible hospitals with meeting the Stage 1 and Stage 2 Meaningful Use measures required to qualify for funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).