The buying journey when purchasing practice management and EHR software can be a long road. The unique needs of your practice coupled with a large variety of software options can leave you overwhelmed with making a purchase decision.

The different technology options alone can be a lot to wrap your head around. For starters, there are three main types of technology that you’ll be able to choose from when purchasing new software: client-server, cloud-hosted and cloud-based. As we said before, your practice has a unique set of needs, and one type of software might be better for your practice than another. So how do you decide? This flowchart will ask you a series of questions about you and your practice to help point you in the direction of the technology that might be the best fit for your practice. Once you determine the best type of software for your practice, pick up The Ultimate Software Buying Guide, to help you through the rest of your buying journey.