Jon can implement this idea and make it cheaper.
So, we will have 4 options:
AC with CCHIT with Ads- cost XXX
AC with CCHIT without ads-- cost XXXX
AC without CCHIT without ads-- cost XX
AC without CCHIT with ads--- cost x
wad'ya think?
I think this is a REALLY DUMB IDEA. An EMR is not just a chart note generator, it's also a productivity tool. Anything that gets in the way - including at looking at advertising - doesn't belong in a PRODUCTIVITY tool.
I'm drowning in paper, as are most doctors, even ones that are fully electronic. Our TIME is our stock in trade - why is it that only LAWYERS seem to realize that about their professional time? Believe me, any money you think you're "saving" by having pop-up advertising or some such nonsense will be more than eaten up by either pushing the advertising out of the way or getting annoyed clicking on whatever you have to click on to make it go away over and over again.
It also means that Jon and company have to maintain FOUR DIFFERENT source code trees. Even if they're 99.95% the same, it still means additional code, additional bugs to troubleshoot, and additional headaches.
Amazing Charts is a bargain at twice the price. There is NOTHING ELSE I've seen on the market that comes anywhere close for the money - and I'VE LOOKED.
I could care less about CCHIT, personally, because I look at Amazing Charts as a PRODUCTIVITY TOOL.. that's for MY benifit, not the government's, not the insurance companies, not the patients' - MINE. My most important asset IS MY TIME. ANYTHING that costs me time unnecessarily while seeing patients is costing me resources in energy, and indirectly in income.
That being said, I can see where some people are going to base their purchasing decision on whether this certification happens. If Jon goes through the headache of getting it certified, then that should be the product, because at that point the work is done, and the headache of maintaining a CCHIT version and a "non-CCHIT" version isn't worth the added expense. Design decisions need to be made as to whether being CCHIT certified will help us or get in our way while we perform our PRIMARY JOB FUNCTION - TAKING CARE OF PATIENTS.
Ok, I'll get off my soap box now.
Regards,
Vinny
