Costs in time and staff are listed below. There are tax advantages to using a system such as this. If you were to lease the system, this would be considered a business expense and you would be able to deduct it directly from your income on your tax return. If you were to buy the system, the cost of the hardware could be depreciated over a 5 year period. Savings to your practice through increased office efficiency are listed below.
Some physicians are quite excited about such a system in their practice.
These physicians participate in large-scale community clinical trials that pay them for their participation. This system would allow you to quickly and easily find all the patients in your practice who might be eligible for entry into a clinical trial. This would make it easy to demonstrate that you could actually recruit the number of patients required and would allow you to easily find those patients when it came time to recruit them. Space used by the system I have very small examining rooms. Space is certainly a premium in many physician s offices.