Experts Estimate Cost of National Health IT Network
Now that everyone's excited about getting an really cool National Health IT Network, we learn how much it will cost. How does more than $156 billion to start, and $48 billion in operating costs sound? Here's the story about the study that created the estimate, and here's an abstract of the study (full text $20, free after 6 months).
I guess to put things in perspective, I should note that $156 billion represents around 2% of annual health care spending over 5 years.
[Hat tip iHealthBeat]
