Outsource Model Key To E-Health Records

Outsource Model Key To E-Health Records: "A new study says that some doctors, if and when they do warm up to e-health records, may find technology outsourcing the only practical approach.

'Smaller levels of physician practices may be able to look at someone hosting these applications,' said Keith MacDonald, a First Consulting analyst. 'They don't have the data center expertise to set these things up and make sure they're secure.'

The idea is that someone else — a services vendor, physician association or hospital — houses and maintains the software. A doctor accesses it over a secure broadband Internet connection, perhaps paying a monthly fee. "