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Slide Presentation of the 2007 Annual Meeting of AHRQ

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Value of HIEI: Key Findings

Standardized, encoded, electronic healthcare information exchange would:
- Save the US healthcare system $337B over a 10-year implementation period
- Save $78B in each year thereafter
- Total provider net benefit from all connections is $34B
- Net benefits to other stakeholders:
  - Payers $22B
  - Pharmacies $1B
  - Laboratories $13B
  - Public Health $0.1B
  - Radiology centers $8B
Dramatically reduce the administrative burden associated with manual data exchange
Decrease unnecessary utilization of duplicative laboratory and radiology tests

Notes:

First, let me share with you the Headlines, or the punch lines, of our analysis. (cite above)

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