How do vendors price their EHR systems?
Vendors use different standards to determine exact pricing, such as the number of physicians, concurrent users, or computers that will have the software installed. And pricing model will depend in large part to whether your office purchases a client-server system (software hosted in your office) or an on-line ASP solution, which is a vendor-hosted solution (Refer to Q6 & Q20). Software license costs for a client-server based system, start around $2,000 and can range up to $15,000 per user. This does not include the hardware, peripheral software, interfaces, training or implementation costs that will be required; those charges are extra. ASP software pricing usually includes setup fees of less than $1,000 and monthly fees ranging from $50 to $300 or more. Some ASPs charge for actual usage: $0.50 per updated chart, $0.80 for each new record, etc. Often, they have monthly minimums no matter how little you actually use the software. Note that these usage-based pricing arrangements are gene
