Walmart Sells EMR?
Walmart and Sam’s Club report that they will offer electronic medical records software by eClinicalWorks for the discount price of $25,000. What?! Who thought Walmart or Sam’s selling EMR was a good idea. Don’t get me wrong I love Walmart. It is where I do all my food shopping as well as sundries and supplies. It’s also a great place for flip flops, but EMR? I don’t get it.
Why would Walmart enter the EMR market? Sam’s Club seems a bit better suited as they do cater to the business crowd, but if I were purchasing something so vital to my practice I would hardly consider picking it up off the shelf at my local store. Isn’t EMR something you should see in action? I would want a chance to ask questions, run through various scenarios and perhaps compare it along side other systems I had already researched or with which I had experience.
While employed as an office manager of a large orthopedic group, I got the pleasure of participating in a change in computer systems. This was our first step toward EMR. While the front end worked great, the billing system was a nightmare. Soon after I left the company they changed systems, not once, not twice, but three more times. The cost for such a change is astronomical. Not only do you have to consider the cost of the software, but also the hours of training all of the staff and the cost of lost production until the system is well learned. It is issues such as these that make me wonder about the association between Walmart and eClinicalWorks.
If you were considering an EMR system, would you purchase from Sam’s Club or Walmart? If so, would this be after performing your own independent search? If you performed independent research and the system was available for online purchase would you be more inclined to purchase online or go to your local discount store to pick it up? Let me know your thoughts/comments.
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This is most likely just the tip of the iceberg, as far as Walmart is concerned. Walmart is the most data centric company around. The EMR offer is probably them just dipping their toes in the water and simultaneously shooting across the bow of other companies to let them know of their interest in the health care marketplace. I imagine they will be getting into the transactional side of HC, HC delivery through clinics, buying groups, etc. They already have a great small business program that could help every office with their day to day ops and purchases. I had the same initial response you did… but Walmart is far too smart to take on a project like this without some significant data and a robust biz plan behind it. We'll see….
it has partnered with Dell and EClinicalWorks to offer physicians a package of hardware, software, installation, maintenance, and training for the everyday low price of $25,000 for the first physician and $10,000 for each additional physician in the first year. It is also significant, and important, to note that they are entering healthcare IT in a classically disruptive manner:
it has partnered with Dell and EClinicalWorks to offer physicians a package of hardware, software, installation, maintenance, and training for the everyday low price of $25,000 for the first physician and $10,000 for each additional physician in the first year. It is also significant, and important, to note that they are entering healthcare IT in a classically disruptive manner:
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