I am happy to report (a little late) that ClearHealth is now the first commercial Open Source EHR product to be meaningful use certified.

This project holds a special place in my heart, since David Uhlman and I started it years ago as next generation PHP-based Open Source EHR. It is theoretically possible that some code that I wrote, all that time ago, has actually carried over into this certified version. A careful analysis of the sourcecode tools would probably reveal that I can take credit for perhaps 5 or even 6 carriage returns, in the current ClearHealth code-base.

In all seriousness, the ClearHealth project has grown by leaps and bounds. The PHP-product from ClearHealth, Inc has leveraged many of the innovations from the WebVistA project. Making it probably one of the most capable and robust web-based EHR systems in existence. Only OpenMRS competes in terms of complexity and scope at this stage. Unless Tolven, OpenEMR, PatientOS etc can get their act together, this certification will set ClearHealth aside as the "one project to rule them" in this space.

More importantly, ClearHealth is not ignoring the needs of its community users. They are developing a path to self-certification for ClearHealth users who rely on the community edition of the product. Pretty amazing stuff.

-FT