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Economics Of Health Information Technology

PROLOGUE

The Economics Of Health Information Technology

Just about everybody’s basic theory about financing health information technology (HIT) is that sooner or later it pays for itself, perhaps many times over. Halting progress toward HIT adoption is explained by the corollary proposition that this rich payoff accrues to a different group of stakeholders—payers and patients—and not the providers who must make the up-front investment. The great divide in HIT policy is related to this incentive gap and how to bridge it.

The first group of papers in this special issue of Health Affairs explore the economic interactions that ultimately connect the parties in this wilderness. While visions . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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