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Stimulating Innovation?

The enormous amount of money being spent on health information technology as part of President Obama's economic stimulus package should, among other things, yield potentially significant cost savings. In a study funded by key vendors of Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems, the Center for Information Technology Leadership predicts (pdf) "an annual net value of $19 billion based on a 10-year rollout and a usage rate of 80% of the U.S. population."