In the pilot test of the criteria vendors took between roughly 30 and 300 hours to document their solutions.....don't know to what extent they went....so Tim's estimate sounds reasonable. We estimated it will take 300 hours for VistA Office....we will let everyone know when we are done how long it took.
I personally believe certification is important....but it should impose as small a "tax' as possible, regardless of the license, business model etc. Automated scripts would go a long way to achieve this. Would be interesting to hear from David Chan how much effort was required to certify OSCAR in Ontario, Canada? Joseph WorldVistA, VVSO Tim.Churches wrote: > Test files?In fact, there is no reason why automated test scripts > couldn't be used to demonstrate compliance with the criteria described > by CCHIT - see http://www.cchit.org/publiccomment4.htm - but I get the > feeling that those framing the criteria had human actors in mind with > respect to their test scripts. I might be wrong. > > Either way, it would seem quite feasible for an open source project to > publish documentation of how it meets the certification criteria in the > documents on the above Web page. Tedious to compile such documentation, > but still only person-weeks (or at worst one- o r two-person months)of > work, I suspect, not person years. Split it up between five or six > people and its doable without danger of inducing madness. If a project > did that, then the CCHIT charge for certification ought to be minimal, > if anything at all. > > Tim C > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS > > * Visit your group "openhealth > <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/openhealth>" on the web. > > * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of > Service <http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/>. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > . Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/openhealth/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
