Apr 18 2011
Kansas Health Institute News: HIT Expert Offers Tips For Small And Rural Providers Shopping For EHR Systems
Medical providers, especially those in rural and small offices, who are shopping for an electronic health record vendor should consider the issue of data portability before making a decision, said David Blumenthal, who until this spring was the national coordinator for health information technology. ... Systems with low or zero data portability effectively tie a medical provider to a given software vendor by discouraging or not allowing bulk file downloads from the remote server. ... Cloud-based systems tend to be most popular with small and rural medical offices because the start-up cost is substantially less (Cauthon, 4/15).
 This article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
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