Skip to content

Costs and Limitations

This Health IT Module is 2015 Edition compliant and has been certified by an ONC-ACB in accordance with the applicable certification criteria adopted by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. This certification does not represent an endorsement by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Drummond Group is accredited by ANSI and approved by ONC for the ONC Health IT Certification Program to certify Health IT Module(s) and Certification of other types of Health IT for which the Secretary has adopted certification criteria under Subpart C of 45 CFR.

PCIS GOLD EHR Version 2.6

Criteria Tested:

170.315 (a)(1-5, 9, 12, 14); (b)(1-3, 6); (c)(1-3); (d)(1-9, 12-13); (e)(1, 3); (f)(1-2, 4); (g)(2-7, 9-10)

Clinical Quality Measures Tested:

50v5, 62v5, 65v6, 68v6, 69v5, 74v6, 77v5, 82v4, 117v5, 122v5, 123v5,124v5, 125v5, 126v5, 127v5, 130v5, 131v5, 133v5, 135v5, 136v6, 138v5,139v5, 142v5, 143v5, 144v5, 145v5, 146v5, 147v6, 148v5, 153v5, 154v5,155v5, 156v5, 163v5, 164v5, 165v5, 166v6, 167v5, 182v6

The following costs may be associated with the implementation of the PCIS EHR Version 2.6:

Capability Description of Capability Costs or Fees
Clinical
170.315(a)(1) Computerized provider order entry (CPOE) - Medications Enables users to electronically record, change and access Medication orders Licensing, training, implementation, and monthly support costs per provider included in base agreement.
170.315(a)(2) Computerized provider order entry (CPOE) - Laboratory Enables users to electronically record, change and access Laboratory orders Licensing, training, implementation, and monthly support costs per provider included in base agreement.
170.315(a)(3) Computerized provider order entry (CPOE) - Diagnostic Imaging  Enables users to electronically record, change, and access Radiology/imaging orders Licensing, training, implementation, and monthly support costs per provider included in base agreement.
170.315(a)(4) Drug-to-drug, drug-to-allergy interaction checks Before a medication order is completed and acted upon during computerized provider order entry (CPOE), the system automatically and electronically indicates to a user drug-drug and drug-allergy contraindications based on a patient’s medication list, immunization list, and medication allergy list. The system enables administrators to adjust the severity level of interventions provided for drug-drug interaction checks and to provide a limited set of users the ability to adjust severity levels. Audit reports are available to monitor interactions that occur during the ordering process. Licensing, training, implementation, and monthly support costs per provider included in base agreement.
170.315(a)(5) Demographics Enables a user to electronically record, change, and access patient demographic data, including preferred language, sex, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, and date of birth. Licensing, training, implementation, and monthly support costs per provider included in base agreement.
170.315(a)(6) Problem List Enables a user to record, change, and access a patient’s active problem list over multiple encounters. Licensing, training, implementation, and monthly support costs per provider included in base agreement.
170.315(a)(7) Medication List Enables a user to electronically record, change, and access a patient’s active medication list as well as medication history over multiple encounters. Licensing, training, implementation, and monthly support costs per provider included in base agreement.
170.315(a)(8) Medical Allergy List Enables a user to electronically record, change, and access a patient’s active medication-allergy list as well as medication-allergy history over multiple encounters. Licensing, training, implementation, and monthly support costs per provider included in base agreement.
170.315(a)(9) Clinical Decisions Support Through support of content programs, users can leverage real-time, patient-specific, actionable alerts and notifications. Licensing, training, implementation, and monthly support costs per provider included in base agreement.
170.315(a)(10) Drug-formulary and preferred drug list checks During the electronic creation of prescriptions, the EHR automatically electronically checks whether a drug formulary (or preferred drug list) exists for a given patient and medication, using NewCrop supplied Formulary database. The solution also provides a list of alternative medications that are preferred by the patient's pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) instead of the selected medication, and enables users to replace the selected medication with a preferred alternative medication or to continue ordering the selected medication. The list of alternative medications that are presented when Formulary Alternatives opens is determined by the patient's PBM. Licensing, training, implementation, and monthly support costs per provider included in base agreement.
170.315(a)(11) Smoking Status Enables a user to electronically record, change, and access the smoking status of a patient using SNOMED standards. Licensing, training, implementation, and monthly support costs per provider included in base agreement.
170.315(a)(12) Family health history Enables a user to record, change, and access a patient's family health history in accordance with the familial concepts or expressions. Licensing, training, implementation, and monthly support costs per provider included in base agreement.
170.315(a)(13) Patient-specific education resources (Infobutton) Enables the user to electronically identify patient-specific education resources based on data included in the patient's problem list, medication list, and laboratory tests and values/results, according to InfoButton standards. Licensing, training, implementation, and monthly support costs per provider included in base agreement.
170.315.(a)(14) Implantable devices Enable users to capture patient implantable device data as history in the chart. Licensing, training, implementation, and monthly support costs per provider included in base agreement.
     
Care Coordination
170.315(b)(1)cures - Transitions of care Enables a user to electronically create and transmit a transition of care/referral summary in CCDA format, which includes encounter diagnoses, immunizations, cognitive status, functional status, the reason for referral, and referring or transitioning the provider’s name and office contact information. The solution follows CCDA and Direct standards. Licensing, training, implementation, and monthly support costs per provider included in base agreement.
170.315(b)(2)cures - Clinical information reconciliation and incorporation Enables a user to electronically reconcile problems, medication allergies, and medications listed in an incoming transition of care/referral summary CCDA format to the patient's medication list, problem list, and medication-allergy list in the EHR. Licensing, training, implementation, and monthly support costs per provider included in base agreement.
170.315(b)(3)cures -  Electronic prescribing Ability to generate and transmit patient prescriptions electronically via the Surescripts network through our 3rd party partner NewCrop. Licensing, training, implementation, and monthly support costs per provider
170.315(b)(6) Data export Enables a user to electronically create a set of export summaries for all patients in CCDA format that represents the most current clinical information about each patient. It includes clinical data defined in the Common Clinical Data Set, the reason for referral, and the referring or transitioning provider’s name and office contact information. Licensing, training, implementation, and monthly support costs per provider included in base agreement.
Clinical Quality Measures
170.315(c)(1) Clinical quality measures (CQMs) record and export Enables a user to electronically capture and export all the data necessary to calculate each of the PCIS GOLD EHR supported Clinical Quality Measures (CQM). Licensing, training, implementation, and monthly support costs per provider included in base agreement.
170.315(c)(2) Import and calculate Enables a user to electronically import all the captured data needed to calculate each of the PCIS GOLD EHR supported Clinical Quality Measures (CQM). Licensing, training, implementation, and monthly support costs per provider included in base agreement.
170.315(c)(3)cures - Report Enables a user to electronically create a data file for transmission of Clinical Quality Measures (CQM) data according to the Quality Reporting Document Architecture standard. Licensing, training, implementation, and monthly support costs per provider included in base agreement.
Privacy & Security
170.315(d)(1) Authentication, access control, authorization This functionality verifies against a username that a user seeking access to electronic health information is the one claimed and establishes the type of access to electronic health information a user is permitted based upon security Licensing, training, implementation, and monthly support costs per provider included in base agreement.
170.315(d)(2)cures - Auditable events and tamper-resistance This functionality logs and audits user activity while accessing the system and provides a way to assure the audit log has not been altered. Licensing, training, implementation, and monthly support costs per provider included in base agreement.
170.315(d)(3)cures - Audit report(s) Enables a user to create an audit report for a specific time period and to sort entries in the audit log Licensing, training, implementation, and monthly support costs per provider included in base agreement.
170.315(d)(4) Amendments Functionality that permits a patient to submit an amendment to their electronic health record Licensing, training, implementation, and monthly support costs per provider included in base agreement.
170.315(d)(5) Automatic access time-outs Functionality that automatically stops user's access to health information after a predetermined time frame of inactivity. Licensing, training, implementation, and monthly support costs per provider included in base agreement.
170.315(d)(6) Emergency access This functionality permits a pre-determined set of users to access electronic health information during an emergency. Licensing, training, implementation, and monthly support costs per provider included in base agreement.
170.315(d)(7) End-user device encryption EHR Technology is designed not to locally store electronic health information on end-user devices Licensing, training, implementation, and monthly support costs per provider included in base agreement.
170.315(d)(8) Integrity Encrypt and integrity protect patient data in accordance with the standards. A hashing algorithm with a security strength equal to or greater than SHA-2 is used. Licensing, training, implementation, and monthly support costs per provider included in base agreement.
170.315(d)(9) Trusted connection Encrypt and integrity protect message contents in accordance with the standards. A hashing algorithm with a security strength equal to or greater than SHA-2 is used Licensing, training, implementation, and monthly support costs per provider included in base agreement.
Patient Engagement
170.315(e)(1)cures - View, download, transmit Enables patients to view, download or transmit their health information in the PCIS patient portal that was sent from the PCIS GOLD EHR. The data encompasses the common clinical data set and potentially may include other data, including notes and documents. Licensing, training, implementation, and monthly support costs per provider included in base agreement.
170.315(e)(2) Secure messaging Enables a patient to send a secure message to a health care professional via the PCIS Patient Portal and a health care professional to send a message back to a patient in a secure manner via the PCIS EHR back to the PCIS Patient Web Portal.  Licensing, training, implementation, and monthly support costs per provider included in base agreement.
170.315(e)(3) Patient health information capture Enables a user to identify, record, and access information directly and electronically shared by a patient (or authorized representative) and reference and link to patient health information documents. Licensing, training, implementation, and monthly support costs per provider included in base agreement.
Public Health
170.315(f)(1) Transmission to immunization registries This functionality electronically transmits the recorded or changed immunization information to a state registry using HL7 Immunization protocol. Licensing, training, implementation, interfaces, and monthly support costs per provider included in base agreement.
170.315(f)(2) Transmission to public health agencies-syndromic surveillance Enables users to create syndrome- based public health surveillance information for electronic transmissions in accordance with designated standards. Licensing, training, implementation, interfaces, and monthly support costs per provider included in base agreement.
170.315(f)(3) Transmission to cancer registries This functionality enables EHR to create a cancer CCDA document and submit to Cancer registries. Licensing, training, implementation, interfaces, and monthly support costs per provider included in base agreement.
Design & Performance
170.315(g)(2) Automated measure calculation This functionality enables the calculation and display of the numerator and denominator for the automated measures. Licensing, training, implementation, and monthly support costs per provider included in base agreement.
170.315(g)(3) Safety-enhanced design This functionality enables certifying EHR to meet the collaborative safety enhanced design usability guidelines for end users. Licensing, training, implementation, and monthly support costs per provider included in base agreement.
170.315(g)(4) Quality system management Ensures a Quality Management System is in places for all development, testing, implementation, and maintenance of the software. Licensing, training, implementation, and monthly support costs per provider included in base agreement.
170.315(g)(5) Accessibility-centered design Ensures the use of Health IT accessibility-centered design in each module that certification was sought. Licensing, training, implementation, and monthly support costs per provider included in base agreement.
170.315(g)(6) - Consolidated CDA creation performance This functionality certifies the CDA performance for all CDA documents generated from certified EHR to ONC prescribed standards. Licensing, training, implementation, and monthly support costs per provider included in base agreement.
170.315(g)(7) Application access-patient selection Enables the ability to receive a request and identify a patient and return an ID that can be used by another application to execute requests to transfer patient data. Licensing, training, implementation, interfaces, and monthly support costs per provider included in base agreement.
170.315(g)(8) Application access-data category request Provides ability to respond to requests for patient data for each individual category outlined in the Common Clinical Data Set and to return the necessary data set for each category in the proper format. Licensing, training, implementation, interfaces, and monthly support costs per provider included in base agreement.
170.315(g)(9)cures - Application access-all data request Ability to respond to requests for patient data for all categories defined in the Common Clinical Data Set at one time and then return the corresponding data in summary format according to the specified criteria and defined date range. Licensing, training, implementation, interfaces, and monthly support costs per provider included in base agreement.
170.315(g)(10)cures - Standard API for patient and popluation services Ability to  support client application registration and uses of standardized operations.  API instruction and documentation is available for application developers. Licensing, training, implementation, interfaces, and monthly support costs per provider included in base agreement.
170.315(h)(1) Direct project This functionality allows certified EHR to connect with any HIE and demonstrate interoperability using DIRECT protocols. Licensing, training, implementation, and monthly support costs per provider included in base agreement.

Certificate Number. 15.04.04.2126.PCIS.26.02.1.221222

Date Certified: 12/22/2022

Effective Date: 2015 Edition Cures

Required Software:

  • NewCrop eRX 
  • Updox