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danshelton: The application cost for CCHIT 2008 is now $29,000 application plus $6,000 for maintenance for a grand total of $35,000. I guess the continuing increase in gas prices is finally being passed to the customer.
The application cost for CCHIT 2008 is now $29,000 application plus $6,000 for maintenance for a grand total of $35,000. I guess the continuing increase in gas prices is finally being passed to the customer.
I wonder what the advertising budget for NextGen would be ? Must be at least an order of magnitude more than 35 G. This is great cheap advertising for the BigBoy EMRs - really a brilliant strategy to buddy up together around the CCHIT advertising machine. A great method for EMR shoppers to be forced to pick from the long list of bloated, legacy CCHIT EMRs.
For a full price list : http://cchit.org/files/certification/08/Forms/CCHITCertified08Handbook.pdf (page 66)
Works for me Al.
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To pay an organization millions of dollars to write test cases is daylight robbery.
As a system administrator of a large hospital I find the quality of the software of the leading systems downright appalling.
We have a large and expensive HIS system with which I cannot change the database password for fear of breaking the system. So apparently all our fellow hospitals have the same database login. Not exactly secure. Of course that would never be exposed through CCHIT security requirements with the fox guarding the hen house.
cchitherring: To pay an organization millions of dollars to write test cases is daylight robbery.
CCHIT is a by vendors, for vendors organization who's sole goal is to sell more product for card carrying members. They are in no way interested in moving digital patient care forward. It's just not their rasion d'etre ! Certainly CCHIT is attempting to rally the .gov and other payors to try to fund electronic healthcare. This is to try to land big contracts for their members.
As a system administrator of a large hospital I find the quality of the software of the leading systems downright appalling. We have a large and expensive HIS system with which I cannot change the database password for fear of breaking the system. So apparently all our fellow hospitals have the same database login. Not exactly secure. Of course that would never be exposed through CCHIT security requirements with the fox guarding the hen house.
and the Bigger the EMR, the more you are locked in !