Here's a quote I found on another site today:
I respectfully disagree with the statement that you can start an EMR from scratch for less than $10K and really benefit from the concept. Again, unless you are a cash practice and utilize Quickbooks for your practice management, you must begin with an EMR that is integrated with a practice management system, or one that could interface with a PMS. This virtually eliminates anything less than $7K. Once you add the hardware, other software, training and setup, you will be north of $10K. There was a thread that showed that even using Amazing Charts the minimum initial cost was $19K. Unfortunately, the search feature does not work on this site.
I was pretty astonished by this claim. I know I didn't spend anywhere near that amount! Does anybody here want to post some estimates or actual figures on how much it costs to get started with Amazing Charts?
Here's the link to the actual post:
http://www.emrupdate.com/forums/p/13312/80564.aspx#80564
