Nancy,
The business plan with financial projections is here:
https://sonomawesthealth.org/wp-cont...04_09_2015.pdf
Having two left feet, I have never been a good dancer (much to Joan's dismay) so I am not "dancing around the subject."
We determined long ago that the US market for Electronic Medical Records is dominated by a number of Billion Dollar companies and would take much more money than we have to break into. (Having one implementation does not get you into a market.) Think of it like starting a new car company, you don't get there by building one car no matter how cool the car is. (The fact that Tesla has survived is a miracle that took many hundreds of millions and Elan Musk to lead.)
I won't argue that there is no benefit to implementing at SWMC because we have already benefitted by getting to know the doctors requirements better and improving the software in some areas as a result. If we make 'a sh*t ton of $$$' will it be because of one implementation in the US, or all the work we have been doing around the world and the years of development? If SWMC fails, as some people believe it will, it will be a black eye for EHRI, not a big success so how does this work in our favor? I find it a bit humorous that the same people, who argue that SWMC can't possibly succeed, claim that EHRI will make a lot of money from the success.
As to whether SWMC will be successful over the long term, we can all argue the hypothetical until we are blue in the face but time will soon tell the real story. No one has ever pretended that reopening our hospital was going to be easy and I can honestly say it has been extremely challenging on many fronts but the many people who have been engaged are making it happen.
I heard there is a movie out with you as the star.
Where can we see it?
Dan