Check out my new favorite toy:
What's More Profitable: Demonstrating Meaningful Use or Managing Your Productivity?
The good folks over at SRSsoft, whose CEO Evan Steele is one of the few people in HIT telling the truth, pointed me to their Productivity Calculator tool. I think this should be the first step anyone takes towards purchasing an EHR!
I entered in some rough pediatric numbers - 25 kids a day, 4 days a week, $500K revenue, 32 clinical hours...and learned that losing a minute of time per visit to work on the EHR will cost a pediatrician about $26,000 a year.
Enter your numbers. Fascinating stuff.
Good work, SRSsoft.