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Westborough-based electronic health records provider eClinicalWorks LLC intends to offer its system through Sam’s Clubs.
The company confirmed a New York Times article published yesterday indicating that the massive retailer Wal-Mart Stores was looking to enter the electronic records market. Wal-Mart’s intent is to offer an electronic records capability to small physicians’ practices at a low price.
Wal-Mart will team with Dell Computer Corp. for the hardware, and eClinicalWorks for the application. Wal-Mart says the combined package will include hardware, software, installation, maintenance and training services. The price will undercut rivals by as much as half, according to the article.
The Sam’s Club package will roll out this spring and run at about $25,000 for the first physician in a practice. From there on, it will cost about $10,000 per additional doctor. Maintenance and support will run from $4,000 to $6,500 annually.
“This should put pricing pressure on the industry, making it more affordable for physician practices to implement electronic medical records systems,” a spokeswoman for eClinicalWorks stated in an email. She added that the price of the software is covered in the initial list price, and there is no maintenance and support cost incurred thereafter.
Girish Kumar Navani, CEO and co-founder of eClinicalWorks also stated that this partnership will help reduce the cost of healthcare while aiding providers in giving the best medical care possible. “Initiatives like this, along with President Obama's support of electronic medical records (EMR), could be the catalyst to wide-spread EMR adoption.”
EClinicalWorks is a privately held vendor in the ambulatory clinical systems market. Its electronic medical record and practice management solutions cover every market segment, the company claims. Customers include Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative, Electronic Health Records of Rhode Island and the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. It boasts a customer base of more than 20,000 providers across the country.
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