Thursday, September 10, 2009

Digital Health Records: The Hard Road Ahead

Steve Lohr's writing on EMRs for the NY Times is getting better.

He's the first lay press writer I've seen who actually segments the market. He understands that the drivers for EMR adoption are different for small vs. large offices.

Digital Health Records: The Hard Road Ahead - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com

As I've said before, free is not cheap enough for EMR adoption, especially in small physician offices. PMS (practice management software) reduces your working capital needs, but EMRs are just a huge fixed cost plus large yearly variable costs on maintenance / upgrades.

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