pay $45,000 for another EMR when AC does what we need to do today? even if we actually saw the money, I think it would be a waste of cash as we like AC the way it is. A PM system with the other fancy bells/whistles isn't worth that much of an extra expense. no thanks to the govt cash when we are happy with AC today.
What EMPIRICAL evidence do you have so support your position of what it will cost?
Some of that money will also be used in assisting doctors to CONVERT their paper files to SCANNED ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS. My doctor, who has been practicing in AZ for 10 years, opened her new practice in October. More than 1500 of her patients followed her; and had their records transferred.
She now has in her possession 1500+ patient files each with about 125 pages in them. That totals 187500 pieces of paper that need to be scanned. If the cost to scan, and catalog each page in a document management system is 10 cents. The cost would be about $18,750.00.
Should I continue with the other costs such as training etc?
