“At last week’s HIMSS trade show, one of the clear messages that emerged is that SaaS-based (software-as-a-service) Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are stepping onto the main stage as the most likely way that smaller and solo practices will be able to adopt EHRs in a meaningful way, in time for the 2011 ARRA/HITECH incentive moneys. Dana Blankenhorn (from ZDNet) commented on this, as did John Halamka (CIO at Harvard and member of the Health IT Standards Committee).
SaaS-based software has also been referred to as cloud-based computing, web-based software, ASP-delivered software, and other terms (not all exactly the same from a technical standpoint, but often used interchangeably). So what is this new “hot buzz” all about and why is it important in the world of Health IT?”
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Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers, 9 March 2010
