EMR Buying Guides

It seems like about every 6 months some new organization comes out with a new EMR buying guide. Physicians are looking for every way possible to narrow down the search amongst the 300+ EMR vendors.

Today David Swink sent me this new EMR Buyer’s Guide that InformationWeek is planning to put together. Unfortunately, they don’t really say how much they plan to charge for the EMR buyer’s guide or whether they’re going to get paid by the EMR vendors for the referral or what. We’ll see what they actually put together.

It’s just amazing the prices that many of these EMR buying guides charge for the information or even to be listed in the EMR buying guide. I’m not against people applying a business model to get paid for the work they do. It’s just that far too many of these guides charge a lot more than the value they actually provide to the user.

Plus, there are a number of free EMR selection services which I think do a better job than all of the EMR buyer’s guides I’ve seen. EMR Consultant and Medical Software Advice being 2 examples. They have a larger (often MUCH larger) database of EHR vendors to choose from, and they narrow that list down better than most of the EMR buying guides. Oh yes, did I say they’re FREE.

Just be careful what you buy. You don’t always get what you pay for.

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John Lynn

John Lynn is the Founder of HealthcareScene.com, a network of leading Healthcare IT resources. The flagship blog, Healthcare IT Today, contains over 13,000 articles with over half of the articles written by John. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 20 million times.

John manages Healthcare IT Central, the leading career Health IT job board. He also organizes the first of its kind conference and community focused on healthcare marketing, Healthcare and IT Marketing Conference, and a healthcare IT conference, EXPO.health, focused on practical healthcare IT innovation. John is an advisor to multiple healthcare IT companies. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can be found on Twitter: @techguy.

   

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