In June 2009, Nick Gawrit was selected to serve on the Cardiovascular Medicine Work Group sponsored by the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT®) for the development of the new 2009 EHR certification criteria specific to cardiovascular clinical information.    

In addition, in June, 2009 he became a member of the Integrating Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) International Organization, serving on the Cardiology Planning and Technical committee and the IT Infrastructure Planning and Technical committee.  

In October 2009, Nick was asked to serve as the liaison between these two committees in an effort to further collaborate within IHE.  The role of the IHE is to develop a framework for adoption of exchange of information among healthcare systems and specifying a level of compliance to standards sufficient to achieve efficient interoperability.  Specifically Nick is involved with developing cardiovascular profiles and related technical specifications. 

These activities enable heartbase to remain in the forefront of technological advancements, participate in setting standards for clinical outcome analysis and have input in the ONCs Meaningful Use discussion.  This information is passed on to the client base and incorporated, where appropriate, into the software.