Re: VPN Connections

[Terry Kellum]

We are looking at something similar to provide lab results to Physician offices that have clinical EMR systems.   We are thinking that we can use Cisco VPN routers.  We have a VPN concentrator that we are connected with ARUP thru that works pretty well.  We also use it to secure a link to a remote lab location where we have a VPN box on the other end as well.  The links tend to be strong and stable.  We have had little problem with them over the 2 years that we’ve been using them.  

On a related issue, Has anyone been approached by an EMR vendor and asked to pay to establish a results interface INTO a physicians office EMR?  We were approached by a vendor, and researched the details, told them “yes, we can do it” and were then asked for a purchase order.

As this is a new EMR install at the physician’s office, it would seem to me that it should be part of the install, or that the office should cover the cost.