If you believe experts, the potential for IT to transform health care has existed for a decade or more.
After languishing for all those years, new research suggests that the adoption of IT systems to streamline and expand health care processes is about to trend upward.
The basic forecast, in the new Research and Markets' North American Healthcare IT Market Report 2013-2017, is that North America's health care IT market will grow at a 7.4 percent pace between now and 2017, reaching a dollar value of $31.3 billion. Currently it's valued at $21.9 billion.
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Dan Cook
Dan Cook is a journalist and communications consultant based in Portland, OR. During his journalism career he has been a reporter and editor for a variety of media companies, including American Lawyer Media, BusinessWeek, Newhouse Newspapers, Knight-Ridder, Time Inc., and Reuters. He specializes in health care and insurance related coverage for BenefitsPRO.
