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U.S. Health Information Technology (IT) Spending to Approach $10 billion by 2014

Colleagues,

As reported in Telemedicine and eHealth News Alert ... Money provided under the economic stimulus law will help state and federal governments increase health information technology spending by $7.6 billion to $9.6 billion by 2014, according to a report by market research firm INPUT.

Much of that spending will be directed toward purchase of electronic health record (EHR) systems, according to “Health IT Transformation: FY2009-FY2014 State and Local Market Forecast.” Spending on that product alone is expected to increase from $850 million in 2009 to $1.85 billion in 2014, and EHR spending in general is expected to spike through 2013 and level off, the report notes.

The study adds that state and local agencies are buying 14 different types of health IT products and services, including software and systems for EHRs, decision support, clinical data, pharmacy, patient tracking, health information exchange, telehealth and disease outbreak management...

Read on at: http://www.input.com/corp/library/detail.cfm?itemid=9153&cmp=ILC-pubsitehmlatestanalysis

ENJOY!

CC

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