Slide Presentation from the AHRQ 2007 Annual Conference

Conclusions

• Benefits
  • Some potential clinical benefits related to better information at the point-of-care
  • Unclear benefits associated with improvements in clinical information at the system level
  • Transaction benefits perhaps easiest to quantify
  • Financial benefits depend market and reimbursement mix
• Costs
  • Investment costs beyond equipment costs can be difficult to quantify
  • Maintenance costs also important
• Dynamic/changing systems and markets....