Blog»Shopping for an EMR: Who can I exclude?
One might consider that any company that does not have either a sufficient number of actual users, or an extremely large amount of money in the bank (such as might be the case for various publically owned companies for which their EMR is merely a small portion of their revenue) is at risk for failure.
Therefore, it might be appropriate to ask how many physician users your prospective EMR has, and then to exclude those which are not large enough.
How many is the proper number? That is clearly a difficult question. 10,000 users is clearly sufficient. 2000 physicians may be sufficient.
100 physicians is probably insufficient to maintain an adequate cash flow to continue development, and I'd be concerned about any program that hasn't passed that milestone.
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