Eric,
I agree completely. And this is for just a simple P2P set-up with like a single router and a few computers. This push to force everyone into EMR's all while not coughing up the cash to off-set the expenses is so maddening. There are so many other, none CCHIT, mid-range EMR's that cost thousands of dollars and many require a real server based system too that this whole force it down practices throats in just insane.
Now we as a brand new practice just figured we would just start this way and never look back. But we are like a number of other early adopters, the first product we picked just didn't cut it in terms of easily living with it on a day to day basis. At a good discount via the forementioned AAFP that was still a $10K mistake! And now we live with an old single laptop with this old program on it in as our first year's Archive. That laptop has to hang in there a very long time... But nobody wants to know about all this added expense, time lost in productivity attending to tech instead of something else. It really is just insane. Thank goodness for AC.
Good Night and Good Luck,
Paul
