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Health Care Reform To Drive $5 Billion in Tech Investments by 2015
April 29, 2010The recently passed health care reform legislation will require significant investment in IT solutions and system upgrades throughout its implementation. A new report, IT Implications of Health Care Reform, released by INPUT, predicts federal, state and local governments will need to invest more than $5 billion in health IT and traditional IT solutions in order to implement requirements of the new law. Analysts looked at the underlying requirements of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (P.L. 111-148) and subsequent Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act (P.L. 111-152), and identified potential areas of opportunity in four categories. Full release.