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If you thought selecting a certified EHR was difficult, thinking about selecting the type of EHR. That's the bigger challenge: server based or cloud based. Determining the type of EHR that best suits your practice is a vital decision to the future of your practice.
Here are some distinguishing facts that may help you determine of the right EHR for your practice:
Criteria
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Cloud based
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Server based
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Cost
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Less upfront costs
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Higher upfront costs
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Hardware
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Only requires live internet connection
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Requires setting up
servers and additional
computer systems
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Transition and Integration
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Possibly easy in transition and easy integration with existing PM software
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Difficult transition
and integration
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Privacy and Security
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Sophisticated privacy and
security measures taken
from the vendor end
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Practice has to
set its own standards
for security and privacy
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Downtimes
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Downtimes experienced if loss of internet connection
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No downtimes unless
server maintenance or
hardware problems
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Data Backup and Loss
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No threat of data loss and
data backup maintained
on the vendor side
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Data can be breached
if any natural calamity.
On site manual data
back up required.
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