CBO: Evidence on the Costs and Benefits of Health Information Technology
Evidence on the Costs and Benefits of Health Information Technology
July 24, 2008 - Testimony before the Subcommittee on Health, Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives.
"This Congressional Budget Office (CBO) analysis focuses on evidence about the benefits and costs of health IT and identifies and analyzes barriers to its adoption. Research indicates that in certain settings, health IT appears to make it easier to reduce health spending if other steps in the broader health care system are also taken to alter incentives to promote savings. By itself, the adoption of more health IT is generally not sufficient to produce significant cost savings."
