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U.S. Government Agencies to Spend $15 billion on Health IT by 2014
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As reported in Federal Computer Week ... Federal, state and local governments will spend $15 billion on information technology systems to support their public health and health insurance programs in 2014, a $3 billion increase from 2009 levels, according to a new report from the Input research firm of Reston, Va...
... By that definition, federal health IT spending is predicted to rise from $4.5 billion today to $5.6 billion in 2014, and state and local health IT spending is projected to increase from 7.6 billion today to $9.6 billion in 2014 ...
... government health IT systems encompass several types of services, including disease and clinical management, emergency medical services, geospatial information, record locator services, laboratory management, Medicaid management, medical records, patient tracking, e-prescriptions, telemedicine and vital records...
... Those figures do not include $19 billion in the economic stimulus law approved by Congress earlier this year to promote adoption of electronic health records and creation of health information exchanges...
Read op at: http://fcw.com/articles/2009/10/23/government-agencies-to-spend-15-...
ENJOY!
CC
As reported in Federal Computer Week ... Federal, state and local governments will spend $15 billion on information technology systems to support their public health and health insurance programs in 2014, a $3 billion increase from 2009 levels, according to a new report from the Input research firm of Reston, Va...
... By that definition, federal health IT spending is predicted to rise from $4.5 billion today to $5.6 billion in 2014, and state and local health IT spending is projected to increase from 7.6 billion today to $9.6 billion in 2014 ...
... government health IT systems encompass several types of services, including disease and clinical management, emergency medical services, geospatial information, record locator services, laboratory management, Medicaid management, medical records, patient tracking, e-prescriptions, telemedicine and vital records...
... Those figures do not include $19 billion in the economic stimulus law approved by Congress earlier this year to promote adoption of electronic health records and creation of health information exchanges...
Read op at: http://fcw.com/articles/2009/10/23/government-agencies-to-spend-15-...
ENJOY!
CC
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