In case you don’t read my other blog, EMR and HIPAA, I released my first e-Book. This book focuses on EMR selection. So far I’m quite happy to report that a bunch of people have bought the book.
Shahid, the healthcare IT guy, wrote up a full review of my EMR selection e-book. Here’s just a few of his comments [emphasis mine]:
“I now recommend it as a must-read for anyone that’s looking to purchase an EMR and wants to know how to make sure they don’t get sold a lemon by a vendor.”
“The final selection guidelines and the contract negotiation section itself is worth the price of the book alone.”
“If you’re looking to select an EMR, this is a great book to start with. No fluff, just sound advice and a “how to” guide that you can trust to get you to a good selection and purchase decision.”
I look forward to hearing more feedback on the book.
Hi. Great blog. Also, excellent idea on e-publishing a book. Would only add that you might consider the Manning Books approach to e-publishing, which has two interesting ‘twists’.
1. they pre-publish the book for “early purchasers” once they have a about 5-6 chapters. they invite feedback. The ‘early bird purchase’ is about 50% off the eventual retail price from a bookstore
2. they discount the e-book while selling a printed/bound version. Although e-books are great, many still want printed/bound. Consider publishing in Lulu (www.lulu.com) which does a great job at “on demand print publishing” — they only print as many as are ordered…
Great stuff.
I e-published the first healthcare/internet book in 1996 — two thumbs up to self-publishers!
Mike Hogarth, MD
Mike,
I like the idea. That’s kind of what I’ve done now in some respects. The long term plan is to write another e-Book on EMR implementation and topics like that. Then, I could put all the e-Books together to make a nice printed/bound version.
We’ll see how it goes and how much time I have.
Glad I could continue in the tradition you started.