Last week, I wrote about the slow pace of adoption of electronic health records by Ontario’s private physicians.
A colleague pointed out a recent article in the NY Times about Walmart marketing a digital health records system through its Sam’s Club division, which recently announced its exit from Canada.
The Walmart system is bundling Dell’s computers with an application from eClinicalWorks.
will be under $25,000 for the first physician in a practice, and about $10,000 for each additional doctor. After the installation and training, continuing annual costs for maintenance and support will be $4,000 to $6,500 a year
The Times story says that health technology suppliers have found it costly to sell to small physician offices because even though they represent a large market, they are scattered. Enter Sam’s Club.
The revenue from legacy Telco services reduced dramatically last years. To sell the complex solutions is only one way for operators to survive. “Switch to IT” – the slogan from 2001, comes true. Only Telus announced Healthcare Solutions. Rogers still dreams to sell Voice and DOCSIS.