EMR Downtime Cost Calculator

Calculate the true financial impact of an IT outage, factoring in provider overhead, lost billing, and recovery time.

Estimated Downtime Cost

$2,050

Per Hour


$16,400

Per 8-Hour Day

Assumptions & Methodology

This calculator assumes that during an EMR outage, providers generate zero billable encounters, but remain on the clock. It adds a 15% penalty to the base hourly calculation to account for the "recovery backlog" (the time staff spend manually entering paper charts into the system once it comes back online).

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