The North Carolina Healthcare Information and Communications Alliance, Inc. (NCHICA) is a nonprofit consortium dedicated to assisting members in accelerating the transformation of the U.S. healthcare system through the effective use of information technology, informatics and analytics.
The National Library of Medicine provides free access to vocabulary standards, applications, and related tools that can be used to meet US EHR certification criteria and to achieve Meaningful Use of EHRs. Below are resources either created by or supported by NLM that can be used for providing patient-specific education materials, e-prescribing, and creating, exchanging, and interpreting standardized lists of problems, medications, and test results.