In the ongoing series of videos (I hope you like them), this video talks about the pros and cons of web based (often called SaaS) EMR systems. I’m sure this video will be a bit controversial. There’s just a lot of passion for SaaS EHR software.
One of the relatively controversial, or at least scary, ideas talked about in the video is the idea of your SaaS based EMR vendor going out of business and you losing your data. First, this situation would be pretty rare. In most cases, they won’t go out of business and just turn the servers off and flee the country (although, I’m sure something like this has happened before). In most cases, the EMR vendor is going to sell off to another EMR vendor or something like that. Still not a pretty situation, but 100 times better than just having them disappear.
Of course, check out the section on EMR contracts in this EMR selection e-Book and you’ll have made sure that in your contract with your EMR vendor you’ve worked through what will happen if they go under and you’ll have gotten regular backups of your EMR data and the EMR datbase schema.
Enough of that, check out the video on Pros and Cons of Web Based SaaS EMR Systems.
