Mark Anderson, CEO of AC Group, Inc., is one of the nation's premier IT research futurists dedicated to health care. He is one of the leading national speakers on health care and physician practices and has spoken at more than 850 conferences and meetings since 2000. He has spent the last 37+ years focusing on health care – not just technology questions, but strategic, policy, and organizational considerations.
For the past eight years, Mr. Anderson has spent the majority of time in the evaluation, selection, and ranking of vendors in the PM/EHR health care marketplace and during those years has published a semi-annual report on the Digital Medical Office of the Future. His EHR evaluation decision tool has been used by more than 25,000 physicians since 2002.
Executive Summary
Government funding incentives (ARRA HITECH Act) to implement electronic
health record systems (EHR) are driving most physicians towards the selection
and implementation of EHR applications that are appropriate to their
practice. However, even though the average practice takes more than 120 days
to select their EHR solution, 87% of practices spend no time evaluating the
service levels and uptime associated with these installations, instead
leaving this important criterion in the hands of the software provider. Even
when asked, some vendors avoid this growing need and offer no solution at
all, leaving it as a point of exposure for the practice. Neglecting the
amount of system downtime that a practice might experience could cost the
average 5-physician practice nearly $25,000 if the product is down just ten
hours during the course of a year. Therefore... (more)
Mark Anderson, CEO of AC Group, Inc., is one of the nation's premier IT research futurists dedicated to health care. He is one of the leading national speakers on health care and physician practices and has spoken at more than 850 conferences and meetings since 2000. He has spent the last 37+ years focusing on health care – not just technology questions, but strategic, policy, and organizational considerations.
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