Not sure why this was not formally annouced, but I was just doing some last minute fact-checking on my new health IT book, and I discovered that WorldVista EHR is a meaningful use certified product.
This is quite an accomplishment, and I am somewhat surprised that WorldVistA has not had an announcement about this. This is really important news and have broad implications. WorldVistA, unlike ClearHealth and Medsphere, is a non-profit organization.
Medsphere and ClearHealth provide only “pro” customers with the benifit of certification. How will WorldVistA handle this?
It is not clear to me if this could be the first completely available (sans proprietary ontologies of course) meaningful use certified Open Source EHR that you do not have to pay for support for. To make an analogy its like the difference between Fedora getting a certification vs RedHat Enterprise Linux getting a certification. Both are Open Source, but the latter is expensive
The other Open Source options as I understand them:
Tolven is partially certified as is OpenEMR.
ClearHealth was the first to be fully certified, and Medsphere also has a fully certified product.