Budget Office Questions Savings From EHR Adoption
The Congressional Budget Office released an analysis late Tuesday discounting previous projections of significant cost savings from adopting health care IT. The office found that while there is a potential for saving in certain instances, such as combining IT with larger reforms, the technology by itself is unlikely to generate large financial benefits.
- "CBO Questions Savings From Digital Health Records" (Wilde Matthews, Wall Street Journal, 5/22).