“The return on investment of health care information technology isn’t uniformly positive, according to a recent analysis from the Congressional Budget Office titled, Evidence on the Costs and Benefits of Health Information Technology.
The underlying rationale for the report, which was requested by the Senate Budget Committee, is to sort out the federal government’s role in health IT. The report asks, “Whether — and if the answer is yes, how — the federal government should stimulate and guide the adoption of health IT.”
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Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, The Health Care Blog, 30 May 2008
