“To use the lowest figure cited, let’s say that approximately twenty percent of hospital EHR installations fail and the system is removed. In these cases it’s likely that the entire investment in hardware, software, implementation costs, lost productivity (and other costs more difficult to measure) is lost. If this average investment is ten percent of annual revenues (or $100 million for a $1 billion IDN) the other 80 percent of EHR implementations must generate a return of 2.5 percent of annual revenues each just to get back to even.”
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Randall Oates, 13 October 2009
