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PMRNC:
http://www.emrandhipaa.com/emr-and-hipaa/2013/08/21/practice-fusion-violates-some-physicians-trust-in-sending-millions-of-emails-to-their-patients/

FREE is not always best!! You get what you pay for!

mbloom:
oh wow! :-\

camedbill:

--- Quote from: PMRNC on August 28, 2013, 01:53:52 PM ---http://www.emrandhipaa.com/emr-and-hipaa/2013/08/21/practice-fusion-violates-some-physicians-trust-in-sending-millions-of-emails-to-their-patients/

FREE is not always best!! You get what you pay for!

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Awesome articles! Thanks for the links!

medwave:
Rather than try to explain it myself, although I could, let's just go with the fact that there are hundreds of thousands of applications that utilize the Freemium model.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemium

Freemium, a portmanteau of the words "free" and "premium", is a pricing strategy by which a product or service (typically a digital offering or an application such as software, media, games or web services) is provided free of charge, but money (premium) is charged for additional features, services, or virtual (online) or physical (offline) goods. The business model has been in use by the software industry since the 1980s as a licensing scheme. A subset of this model used by the video game industry is called free-to-play.

Ways in which the product or service may be restricted in the free version include:

* Limited features: A free video chat client may not include three-way video calling. Most free-to-play games fall into this category, as they offer virtual items that are either impossible or very slow to purchase with in-game currency but can be instantly purchased with real-world money.
* Limited capacity: For example, SQL Server Express is restricted to databases of 10GB or less.
* Limited use license: For example, most Autodesk or Microsoft software products with full features are free for students with an educational license. (See: Microsoft Imagine.) Some apps, like CCleaner, are free for personal use only.
* Limited use time: Most free-to-play games permit the user to play the game consecutively for a limited number of levels or turns; the player must either wait a period time to play more or purchase the right to play more.
* Limited support: Priority or real-time technical support may not be available for non-paying users. For example, Comodo offers all its software products free of charge. Its premium offerings only add various kinds of technical support.
* Limited or no access to online services that are only available by purchasing periodic subscriptions

PMRNC:
just to correct one of the above posts..EHR is not required for all... my clients all opted out of Medicare/Medicaid and are not required to use one and when they came out I predicted this mess we are in now with it...ransomware, breaches, billing companies NOT providing their own risk analysis and relying on the covered entities to do it which many don't..it's a breeding ground for a potential disaster that is GOING to happen. EHR doesn't do what it was supposed to do in more than half of the practices using them. Patients HATE them, most don't know what to do with their info, don't know their rights and don't want to read 100 pages of legal mumbo jumbo.. As a patient myself i'm finding them DANGEROUS and i predict in future more restrictions will be put forth to protect patients that will pretty much make the EHR useless.  State hubs? Federal hubs?  When our own govt can't stop ransomware, can't stop breaches. More patients are doing what I do. I have a legal OPT out.. my info gets transmitted NO WHERE I don't authorize.  EHR vendors came out of the woodwork and still they are sneakier and peskier than the PM system vendors if that's possible. So glad I don't pay for any of this.

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