A while back I spoke with Tom Galland who works for an EMR company near where I work and he told me about what it takes to make an EMR comply with the e-prescribing specs put forth by SureScripts. Think 9 months of focused work and lots of $$$$ to comply with the multitude of specs which make those found in CCHIT pale. In fact, as I understand, about 40 of the CCHIT criteria involve e-prescribing. Is it worth it? Probably not at this time. Is it going to be costly (and unweildy) to the end user?
YES on the "costly", even with the initial "help" from Medco.
YES on the "unweildy"- the FAQ to the PDF below states that it takes 15 seconds to print out one prescription. Heck, with the MS Access EMR that I use in my office, I can check and print out 20 prescriptions in about 10 seconds!
To be "fair and balanced", I went to the
RxNT website and lo and behold, there is no pricing data, which is usually a bad sign. To get this data they offer a form where they ask all of your personal information. I found an email URL in the
Physicians Practice website and I used that to email them for the pricing particulars- hopefully they will email me back tomorrow with a full direct quote, and I'll report here the true costs of e-prescribing through RxNT. There is one PDF which does give the cost per physician license: $1000, which is what you would have to pay after the first year, yearly. I'm not sure if this includes the HL7 interface. The link can be found here:
http://www.erx2u.com/FAQ.pdf. If you check
HERE , you'll see that this company will throw in their own "EMR Lyte" solution FREE to work with their RxNT software, so most likely they are seeking to compete for AC users for their own supposedly "complete" EMR solution.
More later, when I get a reply...
