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Drummond Certified™ Health IT Certificate and Marks Usage Requirements

ISO/IEC 17065
Revised: December 1, 2024 | EHR CB-007
First Published: August 25, 2019

Certificate of Compliance Details

The Drummond Group (Drummond) Certification Body shall issue an official document of Certificate of Compliance to each customer’s product that is certified.

The Certificate of compliance will clearly state the following:

  1. What is being certified: Certified Company Name, Product Name with Version Number
  2. By whom it was certified: Drummond Group and its level of accreditation as an ONC-ACB
  3. Who is requiring the certification: Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is requiring the certification. Certifications with ONC Certification Criteria for Health IT certified until the ONC dictates that they are no longer active.
  4. Scope of the Certification: The list of Health IT modules
  5. Effective Date of Certification
  6. Unique Certification Number or other specific product identification

The developer or participant must conspicuously include the following disclaimer text on its website and in all marketing materials, press releases, communications, statements, and other assertions related to the Health IT Module’s certification:

This Health IT Module is compliant with the ONC Certification Criteria for Health IT 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

The developer or participant must include the following information in all marketing materials, press releases, communications, statements, and other assertions related to the Health IT Module’s certification.

  • Developer Name
  • Product Name
  • Product Version
  • Product Certification Date
  • Unique Certification Number
  • Certification Criteria to which the Health IT has been certified
  • CQMs to which the product has been certified
  • Any additional software the certified product relied upon to demonstrate its compliance with certification criteria

In plain language, a detailed description of all known material information concerning additional types of costs or fees that a user may be required to pay to implement or use the Health IT Module’s capabilities, whether to meet provisions of HHS programs requiring the use of certified health IT or to achieve any other use within the scope of the health IT’s certification. The additional types of costs or fees required to be disclosed include but are not limited to costs or fees (whether fixed, recurring, transaction-based, or otherwise) imposed by a health IT developer (or any third party from whom the developer purchases, licenses, or obtains any technology, products, or services in connection with its certified health IT) to purchase, license, implement, maintain, upgrade, use, or otherwise enable and support the use of capabilities to which health IT is certified; or in connection with any data generated in the course of using any capability to which health IT is certified. Self-developers are excluded from this requirement.

  1. Certification is valid for that product-with-version only, and only for the criteria specifically tested and stated on the Certificate of Compliance. Other products offered by that company or versions of that product which have not undergone testing are not considered to be Drummond Certified and may not use the Certificate.
  2. The Certificate of Compliance must be used in its entirety.
  3. No modifications to the Certificate of Compliance may be made without the express written consent of Drummond Group.
  4. This certificate remains the property of Drummond Group and shall be returned immediately upon request.

Drummond Registered Mark Usage

Drummond Certified Health IT Seal and Drummond Logo

The Drummond Certified™ Health IT certification seal is a mark which indicates software solutions that have been tested and certified for the ONC certification program for health IT products testing under the Drummond Certified™ program. Drummond Group Logo and Drummond Certified Health IT Seal are registered marks of Drummond Group LLC and are often used by companies in referring to their certified product.

Users of the Drummond Logo must abide by Drummond’s Brand Guidelines. 

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All organizations that successfully complete ONC Health IT certification with Drummond will receive a digital copy of the Drummond Certified seal for use on their website and marketing materials.

  1. Drummond Group logo and the Drummond Certified™ Health IT seal are registered marks of Drummond Group.

  2. The Drummond Group logo is provided to certified clients in combination with the ONC seal at the time of certification.

  3. Use of the Drummond Certified™ Health IT seal is restricted to the company-name, product-with-version that received specific Health IT certification for a specific test on a specific date. Drummond Group has its own Drummond Certified™ seal distributed to developers for successfully testing under the ONC Health IT program. The seal posted on a developer’s website, or utilized in internal product description pages, press releases or marketing materials, may not be placed next to another ONC-ACB’s Health IT seal (or on same pages).

  4. If a developer chooses to post the Drummond Certified™ seal on the developer’s website, internal product description pages, press releases or marketing materials, the Drummond Certified™ seal (on a website’s home page, for instance) must be hyperlinked to the specific certified product’s internal page where the disclaimer text required by the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is included in full. (This hyperlink is required if there is no room on the company website’s home page at the bottom in small font/type size.) The disclaimer text required by the HHS Secretary and explicitly required by the Drummond Group Master Services Agreement must be used in reference to the health IT certification. The use of the Drummond Certified™ seal does not replace or substitute the use of that required ONC language. For a full and complete reference of the required disclaimer text language in your marketing, please refer to page 1 of this document as well as to the Drummond Group Master Services Agreement.

  5. Companies agree to display the Drummond Certified™ seal without alteration, modification, or misrepresentation in any way, shape, or form.

  6. Companies agree to use the Drummond Certified™ seal only in an authorized manner or approved format, according to these guidelines. (See No. 4 above)

  7. Drummond reserves the right to approve or disapprove the use of the seal or logo on a company’s website or marketing materials (size, surrounding text, etc.) to ensure that it complies with these policies. Drummond has the right to rescind the seal or logo usage at any time.

  8. Use only the mark provided by Drummond for print or electronic media. (See No. 3 above for additional guidance.)

  9. Maintain 0.5” of empty space around the mark.

If Drummond discovers incorrect use of the Certificate of Compliance and/or the Drummond Group Registered Marks (Drummond Certified™ seal or logo), these infractions shall be dealt with as follows:

  1. The action chosen will depend upon several factors such as: “the laws of the country in which the misuse occurs; the seriousness of the misuse, whether the misuse was inadvertent or deliberate; whether the product is hazardous, whether the use intent was to confuse or mislead the market.”
  2. The Drummond Certification Body will require a misuser to take corrective action whenever the mark of conformity has been affixed to a product that is hazardous and:
    • is not authorized to bear the mark because there is no record of the products certification, or it does not comply with the certification requirements so that the integrity of the mark of conformity is jeopardized
    • where the mark of conformity is unauthorized (e.g., a counterfeit mark)
    • where the mark of conformity is being displayed in violation of any existing agreement
    • has received a complaint and said complaint has been filed with Drummond and, after review, has been found to be true
    • where there are incorrect references to the Drummond Certified program or misleading use of certificates or marks are found in advertisements or catalogs.
    • where the Drummond Certification Body incorrectly claims product certification and issues certificate and/or marks, the Certification Body may require to subsequently issue a withdrawal of all marks or certificates.
  3. The Certification Body may take corrective actions, which include but are not limited to:
    • notification and recommendation for re-test
    • removal of Certificate of Compliance or mark
    • request re-test and certification of the product so that it complies with certification requirements
    • issue public notices concerning product hazard or of transgression
    • take necessary and appropriate legal action

Drummond reserves the right, at any time and without cause, to modify or suspend these policies and withdraw any permission granted to a company to use the certificate or mark.

Drummond also reserves the right to act against any misuse or unfair, false claims, misleading, diluting, or infringing use of Drummond’s mark or certificates.

Click here to review the Drummond Certified™ Announcement Guidelines.

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