EMR and Pharma

In a post on EMR and EHR about Pharma and Health Plans paying for EMR software, I got the following comment from Aaron Holloway:

I am partnered with a Practice Management/EMR/EHR platform and we are in negotiations now with Pharma companies who are interested in subsidizing the platform from many perspectives:
1. Integration option of a sales visit app for rep’s (details, samples, etc.)
2. De-identified data procurement (measure brand impact)
3. Ad placement (lessor priority/ROI)

I’ve previously posted about the riskiness of pharma ads in EHR, but also have commented on how pharma ads in EHR are inevitable. However, I thought Aaron’s comments provided some interesting new ways I hadn’t heard for pharma to interact with a doctor thought an EHR than I had heard before.

I’m sure some people like Bruce Friedman from Lab Soft News will still be a little concerned whenever Pharma puts their fingers into things. Bruce has a right to be concerned. However, I still believe that it’s going to happen. So, I’d rather be part of the discussion than to sit back and say it shouldn’t happen while it happens anyway.

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John Lynn

John Lynn is the Founder of HealthcareScene.com, a network of leading Healthcare IT resources. The flagship blog, Healthcare IT Today, contains over 13,000 articles with over half of the articles written by John. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 20 million times.

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