Slide Presentation of the 2007 Annual Meeting of AHRQ

Cost to Oklahomans from Disconnected Health Records

• $ 1.2 billion in healthcare costs of $ 20.1 billion health care expenditures in Oklahoma*
• This is a minimum of 6% of all health expenditures
• 1,139 potential lost lives
• * Estimate based in U.S. Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services 2004 and medical inflation at 6.65 % through 2007. $ 1.7 billion projected by 2011 against medical costs of $ 25.8 billion.