Costs and Benefits of Health Information Technology
April 2006 Costs and Benefits of Health Information Technology This evidence report reviewed 256 studies of health information technology implementation in order to assess the evidence base regarding benefits and costs of health information technology (HIT) systems to isolate the value of discrete HIT. All cost-benefit analyses predicted substantial savings from EHR (and health care information exchange and interoperability) implementation: the quantifiable benefits are projected to outweigh the investment costs. However, the predicted time needed to break even varied from three to as many as 13 years. HIT has the potential to enable a dramatic transformation in the delivery . . .
