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It's great to see more and more companies tackling the healthcare industry. Although you can get the most cutting edge medical treatment in terms of surgical pr
by dr_ 16y ago
It's great to see more and more companies tackling the healthcare industry. Although you can get the most cutting edge medical treatment in terms of surgical procedures and CT scanners - storing and communicating most types of data is archaic. It's primarily because most physicians and hospitals do not see how moving to an electronic medical records system helps their bottom line, with the exception of electronic prescriptions, which can reduce errors that result in death.
It's actually sad that we need a stimulus to do all this. We really shouldn't. If there are more and more providers offering services at a competitive rate, doctors and hospitals would more readily switch over. Right now AllScript is charging close to $700 a month at our hospital (that's the discounted rate btw) to use their EMR system. With the understanding that one would get the 44K grant from the government.
That's an absurd amount to charge for any such system. I'm not familiar with what DrChrono is offering, but at least their price point is reasonable and if there were other providers in the price range as well, docs and hospitals would switch without the need for a stimulus.
Our own office went electronic before there ever was such a thing as a stimulus. Just cause it seemed like the right thing to do for ourselves and for our patients.
- absconditus 16y ago$700 per month or $44K total is not high for such a system. It is not uncommon for enterprise systems to cost thousands of dollars per user. You must realize that the sales cycle for a hospital can be years, 24 hour support must be provided, hospital IT staff is often incompetent and clinicians are very demanding users. Disclosure: I work for one of Allscript's competitors.
- dr_ 16y agoThis is not for a hospital. Its for physicians in private practice. It's $700 per physician per month and hardly anyone is signing up. I'm sure for very large groups there is discount pricing and they must be signing up, but for smaller groups or solo practitioners this is not a reasonable option.
- recoiledsnake 16y agoDrChrono is offering these terms >DrChrono’s pricing model ranges from a free base offer including storage for 1,000 patients and one doctor login to a premium offer including 10 staff logins and unlimited patient record storage for $199 per month. Setting up medical billing costs quite a bit, which is why they charge for the premium versions of the app. Kivatinos also notes that most doctors pay upwards of $50,000 for a similar electronic system. The bigger question is, will Drchrono be forced to pay Apple the 30% in app subscription fee from June 30?