Comments on: Sam’s Club to Sell eClinicalWorks EMR Bundle

By: Nancy Biernacki

Nancy Biernacki — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:59:42 +0000

I own a physician billing service, I would love to see how this works. I have groups on these very expensive EMR systems and they really are not user friendly. I also have groups that could not afford and expensive EMR and this would be perfect. I need to understand how the practice management side works. You can have a inexpensive EMR but if the Financial side does not have the reporting tools and the software for claims to go through with out a hitch, then it becomes a very expensive EMR.
Nancy

By: Larry

Larry — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:34:37 +0000

I still don’t get the Wal-Mart angle. The number of docs they can sell to is rather small for a retailer like Wal-Mart. Sure they get a piece of the on-going maintenace which must have nice margins but the revenues won’t move a comma in their revenues. Does anyone know if Wal-Mart can get access to the data in the EMR? Thats gold if they can. Any other reasons why they’d do this?

By: Krockh

Krockh — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:14:13 +0000

Great idea except for the proce tag. It should be a box of software for $250 and than the ongoing cost. SaaS is not typically 25k p front not is an asp model, client server for 1 doc would be 25k.

By: ecwuser

ecwuser — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:10:47 +0000

This is a joke. I can’t see how anyone would buy eClinicalworks, much less pay 25k for it. Note that I have no conflict of interest. I have used eCW for about 2 years and found that much of the recent negativity about EMR’s to apply wholeheartedly. While I can definitely say eClinicalworks is a piece of junk unfit even for the lowest bidder, most of the CCHIT software are just as bad. Shame on eCW, I cannot believe for a second that a single person would actually benefit or like their obtuse, clunky software. Rather than work on expansion and public relations telling people what they want to hear, they should try and make a more marketable software that actually works well. Please also note that as much as I hate eClinicalworks, I will readily admit it is one of the better packages out there, which speaks volumes as to how inappropriate the current generation of electronic medical records are for patient care.

By: Rich

Rich — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 02:33:11 +0000

As a happy user of a competing inexpensive EHR for 5 years, I can only applaud ECW’s success and widespread adoption. Most of the comments are ignorant; as I understand it, ECW is selling this thru this outlet, in addition to thru VARs, and drawing attention to itself.This is the same product and training as you would get buying directly from them, or a VAR. Whether they can keep up with the volume is the next question. One website claimed there was a 4 month wait time for implementation.