OK, I guess some of them are duds. But how about "A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Electronic Medical Records in Primary Care" http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=12714130&query_hl=11
You can click on the "Related Articles" link and get 798 article references. Full article at http://www.brighamandwomens.org/gms/News/WangEMRCostBenefit.pdf I would imagine it is very, very hard to put a dollar amount on the savings. What about other industries where there is common use of electronic data exchange - i.e. banking, securities etc.. I imagine that removing that infrastructure would be very detrimental. What would be the benefit to the US economy if we immediately stopped using all passenger automobiles? Would we realize $230 billion in savings? http://www.dot.gov/affairs/nhtsa3802.htm I doubt it. > What kind of an abstract is that?? -- Ismet B. Kursunoglu, MD, FCCP Medical Director Alaska Clinic, LLC 3750 Country Field Circle, UNIT B Wasilla, Alaska 99654 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (907)357-7240 ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
