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Building the patient and population access APIs criteria require, with the conformance and authorization behavior testing evaluates.
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ONC Health IT Certification readiness engineering means building the criteria-specific functionality and producing the test evidence an authorized certification body evaluates. Taction Software provides that engineering, alongside the ONC-Authorized Certification Body and Accredited Testing Laboratory that own testing and certification.
The division matters. We are a software engineering firm. We are not an authorized certification body or accredited testing laboratory, we do not perform certification testing, and we cannot certify anything. What we do is build criteria-conformant functionality and prepare the artifacts testing examines. Our hire dedicated developers hub covers implementation roles.
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What This Engineering Work Produces
Criteria cover clinical functionality, interoperability, security, and transparency requirements. Most are directly buildable. The work below reflects that, drawing on the interface practices in our FHIR API development services.
Clinical Data Export Capability
Implementing electronic health information export in the required formats, since export criteria test completeness rather than partial extraction.
Interoperability Criteria Functionality
Building transmission, receipt, and reconciliation of clinical information, following approaches in our healthcare integration services.
Security and Audit Criteria Implementation
Implementing authentication, access control, encryption, and audit logging to the specific behaviors criteria describe rather than to general good practice.
Test Data and Scenario Preparation
Preparing the data and scenarios testing exercises, since criteria are tested against defined procedures rather than general demonstration.
Real World Testing Support
Building the measurement capability real world testing requirements involve, which continues after certification rather than ending at it.
Certification and Clinical Context This Work Requires
Certification tests defined criteria through defined procedures. Building to the spirit of a criterion rather than its tested behavior produces failures during testing that are expensive to remediate late. The context below spans the healthcare work you assign.
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Criteria Are Tested Through Defined Procedures
Testing follows published procedures. Functionality must satisfy those specifically rather than meeting the general intent a criterion describes.
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Scope Is Selected Rather Than Universal
Developers certify to selected criteria based on their product and customer needs. Scope decisions belong to your product and compliance functions.
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Requirements Change Over Time
Criteria and required standards versions are revised. Current requirements should be confirmed with your certification body rather than assumed.
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Certification Carries Ongoing Obligations
Real world testing, attestation, and maintenance continue after certification. Engineering must support those rather than treating certification as an endpoint.
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Testing Is Performed by Accredited Laboratories
Testing and certification are performed by accredited bodies. No engineering vendor performs testing or issues certification.
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Customer Requirements Drive Scope
Providers need certified capability for their own program participation. Which criteria matter follows from your customers rather than from completeness.
Technical Skills This Work Requires
The differentiating skills are criteria-specific implementation and test procedure familiarity rather than general standards knowledge. The competencies below reflect that, with verification consistent with our quality assurance approach.
Criteria-Specific Implementation
Building functionality to the behavior test procedures exercise, rather than to a reasonable interpretation of what a criterion intends.
Standards Conformance Engineering
Implementing required standards versions precisely, since criteria specify versions and testing validates conformance rather than approximate compliance.
API and Authorization Implementation
Building required APIs with the authorization behavior criteria specify, including scope handling testing evaluates directly.
Export and Data Portability
Implementing complete export capability, since criteria test whether all specified data is included rather than whether export exists.
Security Criteria Implementation
Building authentication, audit, and encryption to specified behaviors, following practices in our HIPAA engineering guidance.
Test Preparation and Remediation
Preparing for testing and remediating findings, which requires understanding what testing will exercise rather than discovering it during evaluation.
How We Evaluate Engineers for This Work
The distinguishing question is whether they have been through testing. Engineers who have know which criteria produce findings and which implementations satisfy procedures. Our assessment centers on criteria-specific experience. Our delivery process includes review points where you can reassess fit.
Testing Experience
We ask whether they took functionality through certification testing. Engineers who have encountered findings understand where interpretation diverges from tested behavior.
Standards Version Precision
We ask how they handled specified versions. Engineers implementing a newer or older version than specified fail conformance regardless of technical quality.
Export Completeness
We ask how they verified export included everything required. Partial export passes internal review and fails testing.
Real World Testing Support
We ask what they built for post-certification obligations. Engineers treating certification as an endpoint left obligations nobody could satisfy.
Remediation Under Time Pressure
We ask about findings they addressed. Late remediation is expensive, and engineers who have experienced it plan differently.
Verified Certification Experience
We describe which criteria each engineer implemented and what was tested. We do not claim certification body credentials for engineers.
Engagement Options for Readiness Work
Engagements should follow your criteria scope, which your product and compliance functions determine with your certification body. Structures below reflect that, and our engagement models accommodate project or ongoing arrangements.
Criteria Gap Assessment
Reviewing existing functionality against criteria in scope, producing prioritized findings before testing rather than discovering them during it.
Criteria Implementation Engagement
Building the functionality identified as gaps, with test preparation so evaluation exercises what was built as intended.
Test Preparation and Remediation Support
Preparing artifacts and data for testing and addressing findings, which is time-sensitive work with an external timeline.
Augmenting Your Product Team
Where you own the certification program, staff augmentation adds implementation capacity within your existing standards and conventions.
Full Team for Certified Product Builds
A dedicated healthcare development team builds to criteria during development, which costs substantially less than retrofitting before testing.
Fixed-Scope Criteria Delivery
Where criteria and scope are defined, a fixed-scope build delivers the functionality with test preparation and documentation.
Tell Us Which Criteria You Need
Share the criteria your customers require and your certification body relationship. Scope determines the work and follows from customer need rather than completeness.
Scope Boundaries and What We Do Not Do
We do not perform certification testing, act as a certification body or testing laboratory, or certify anything. Those functions belong to accredited organizations. Scope belongs to your product and compliance functions. We build to HIPAA-aligned practices where HIPAA applies; software cannot be HIPAA certified.
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We Are Not a Certification Body
Testing and certification are performed by authorized bodies and accredited laboratories. We build functionality they evaluate, which is a different function.
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Scope Belongs to Your Organization
Which criteria to certify against follows from your customers and product strategy rather than from engineering recommendation.
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Requirements Confirmed With Your Certification Body
Current criteria and standards versions should be confirmed with your body rather than assumed from any summary including ours.
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Ongoing Obligations Continue After Certification
Real world testing and attestation continue. Engineering supports those obligations rather than treating certification as completion.
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Sensitive Data Handling
Where certified functionality handles behavioral health data, additional restriction applies. We built CHIPSS, a behavioral health system, where such segmentation was foundational.
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Claims We Would Not Make
We would not describe our work as certification, suggest our involvement affects a testing outcome, or present functionality as certified before it has been.
Cost to Engage Readiness Engineering
Cost tracks criteria scope and existing functionality gaps rather than product size. Testing and certification body fees are entirely separate. We publish no figures on certification outcomes, because those are testing determinations.
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MVP or Single Module
$40,000 to $80,000
Gap assessment and implementation for a bounded criteria set with test preparation and documentation.
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Full Platform Build
$80,000 to $200,000
Implementation across a criteria scope with API development, export capability, security criteria, test preparation, and real world testing support.
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Enterprise Deployment
Starting at $200,000
Multi-product or multi-version certification with coordinated implementation, testing support, and ongoing obligation infrastructure.
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Discovery Phase Scoping
Discovery is paid and time-boxed. It produces a criteria gap assessment against your scope, remediation priorities, and an itemized fixed-scope estimate.
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Cost Drivers to Expect
Criteria count and complexity, existing functionality gaps, standards version requirements, export completeness state, and testing timeline pressure.
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Ongoing Support Costs
Criteria are revised and obligations continue. Budget for maintenance across criteria updates, real world testing support, and recertification work.
Third-party licensing, cloud infrastructure, data subscriptions, and hardware are separate from engineering cost and itemised clearly.
Testing fees, certification body engagement, and program costs are entirely separate from our scope.
Why Engage Readiness Engineering Through Taction
Two questions matter. Whether the engineer builds to tested behavior, and whether the vendor is clear about not certifying. Taction Software has built healthcare software since 2013, more than twelve years, with over 200 healthcare projects delivered and ISO 27001 certification. Leadership brings more than twenty years of personal experience in the field, which is separate from company age.
We Built a Record Platform
We built Voyant Health, an EHR platform, which means we have implemented the clinical functionality certification criteria describe.
Experience Under Regulatory Registration
We built Revive Ease and PainKare, both FDA-registered applications. That work established the documentation discipline evaluated processes require.
ISO 27001 Certified Information Security
Taction Software holds ISO 27001 certification covering our own information security management, described under our certifications and compliance information.
We Build to Test Procedures
Functionality is built against what testing exercises rather than against a reasonable reading of intent, which avoids findings late in the process.
We State What We Do Not Do
We do not test or certify. Being explicit limits what we sell and prevents you relying on engineering for an accredited body’s function.
We Will Say Fewer Criteria Suffice
Where your customers need a narrower scope, certifying to fewer criteria costs less. That recommendation reduces our implementation work.
FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
We assess your criteria scope and existing functionality, then present engineers with certification implementation experience for your approval.
Bounded criteria implementation runs $40,000 to $80,000, full scope $80,000 to $200,000, and multi-product programs start at $200,000. Testing fees are separate.
No. We are not a certification body or testing laboratory. We build criteria-conformant functionality that accredited organizations test and certify.
That follows from what your customers require for their program participation. Your product and compliance functions determine scope with your certification body.
Ongoing obligations including real world testing and attestation continue. Engineering supports those rather than treating certification as an endpoint.
That covers compliance engineering broadly across frameworks. This page addresses one certification program with defined criteria and accredited testing procedures.
Share the criteria your customers need, your certification body relationship, your existing functionality, your timeline, and the engagement model you have in mind. We will build to tested behavior and say plainly where scope could be narrower. We do not test or certify.