Decide if you want to host the software yourself or use a new ASP or hosted model. The software as a service SaaS offerings for healthcare clinics are emerging as a real alternative to the old boxed software model. Software as a service means that your software runs on the software companies servers. The benefit for you is that you don't have to maintain the software and pay an IT consultant to update it for you. The solutions typically run online and you can login via any web browser to access your data securely. These solutions make sense if you are looking at EMR solutions as you can simply add other modules when the time comes. You will typically sign a 12 month agreement to use the software then pay month to month based on the number of users you have using the system. This is the wave of the future in software delivery, especially for electronic charts. If you have not purchased the boxed software yet, you may want to at least consider the alternatives. pos softwares