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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....
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