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I have a quick question for all you US medical students out there, I hope you do not mind me impinging on your forum in this way.
As you may already know, Electronic Medical Records (EMR) or Electronic Health Records (EHR), which is becoming the buzz word for them these days, are going to become very important in the future of US healthcare, perhaps to the point where they will become mandatory in the next ten years.
I write as a member of staff at an EMR vendor that is one of the 22 EMR/EHRs recently certified by the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT), an organization given their remit by the US Department of Health and Human Services.
(See the CCHIT website for further details)
MY QUESTION: The EMR software that my company sells costs several thousand dollars - would you be interested in using this software completely for free, no strings attached, while you are still a medical student, to enable you to get to grips with the technology now that is soon going to become part of your daily work routine as a doctor?
The EMR software in question (and all of the EMRs so far certified by CCHIT) comes under the category of "Ambulatory EHR/EMRs for the office-based physician or provider". It is typically used in clinics/offices with 1 to 50 providers.
Is this the kind of scheme that would interest you, or do you think you would not have enough time or interest in EMRs as a medical student to make this worthwhile?
Please let me know. I hope I have posted this in the correct forum and that no one feels I am overstepping the mark as a commercial vendor posting here. I am not trying to sell anything, honest! Just trying to get some info to see if there would be a demand for this. Thanks for your time
PS - If you are interested, make it known on this thread, and if and when we provide our software for free, you will be contacted here by private message to be the first students to benefit from this scheme.
As you may already know, Electronic Medical Records (EMR) or Electronic Health Records (EHR), which is becoming the buzz word for them these days, are going to become very important in the future of US healthcare, perhaps to the point where they will become mandatory in the next ten years.
I write as a member of staff at an EMR vendor that is one of the 22 EMR/EHRs recently certified by the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT), an organization given their remit by the US Department of Health and Human Services.
(See the CCHIT website for further details)
MY QUESTION: The EMR software that my company sells costs several thousand dollars - would you be interested in using this software completely for free, no strings attached, while you are still a medical student, to enable you to get to grips with the technology now that is soon going to become part of your daily work routine as a doctor?
The EMR software in question (and all of the EMRs so far certified by CCHIT) comes under the category of "Ambulatory EHR/EMRs for the office-based physician or provider". It is typically used in clinics/offices with 1 to 50 providers.
Is this the kind of scheme that would interest you, or do you think you would not have enough time or interest in EMRs as a medical student to make this worthwhile?
Please let me know. I hope I have posted this in the correct forum and that no one feels I am overstepping the mark as a commercial vendor posting here. I am not trying to sell anything, honest! Just trying to get some info to see if there would be a demand for this. Thanks for your time
PS - If you are interested, make it known on this thread, and if and when we provide our software for free, you will be contacted here by private message to be the first students to benefit from this scheme.