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To help physicians, hospitals and other providers understand the Certification Commission’s criteria for electronic health records (EHRs), the Concise Guide to Certification provides a comparison to the Commission’s most recent criteria and shows how certification of EHRs to these criteria ensures that they are a qualified electronic health record under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). These criteria will be further adjusted to meet the final 2011 meaningful use objectives required by the US Dept of Health and Human Services (HHS) to qualify for ARRA funding, when the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC/HHS) publishes the criteria and standards required to support those objectives.