What is SAAS, anyway?
SAAS or ” Software as a Service” is an established business model in the tech industry. It refers to using software services on a monthly membership rate rather than traditional health IT licensing models. Also utilizing enterprize cloud computing services, with outsourced hosting, security, backups, it frees physicians from hefty IT costs associated with puchasing and maintaining servers, firewalls, backups, and hosting. Utilizing this technology is part of the drastic overhead reduction of practice, compared with traditional Health IT.