Back to original query: Would you choose AC again?
For our practice I am not certain. Our providers really like AC and we have no real need for CCHIT or MU nor are we interested in any federal reimbursement (opted out Medicare practice). We are a group of 9 with three sites and on two of the sites we remote into the main server w/o significant difficulty (I suspect similar to cloud platform in performance and stability).
We are NOT happy with having to use TWO programs -- EHS for our practice management and AC for our EHR. For this reason alone, IF I were starting out all over again I would look VERY hard at either eMD's or eClinicalworks. We have to do data entry into both systems (for some reason cannot get an HL7 bridge due to code incompatibility or so I have been told).
At this juncture, already using both systems, I would be loathe to incur the costs (both real, hidden and lost productivity for several months) of switching and am psychotically hopeful that AC will team up with someone to integrate both EMR and EHR functions in one platform.
