“Federal spending on health information technology hit a five-year high in fiscal 2018, thanks in large part to increases in electronic health record modernization investments.”
“The Health and Human Services and Veterans Affairs departments dominated health IT spending from fiscal 2014 through 2018 with 89 percent of the federal civilian market and 69 percent of the overall government health IT market.”
“The Defense Department’s spending accounted for 22 percent of the federal health IT market from fiscal 2014 through 2018. The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health Affairs ($4.2 billion since fiscal 2014), the Army ($2 billion), and the Navy ($1.5 billion) were the Pentagon’s three biggest-spending bureaus.”
“The top HHS contracts in fiscal 2018 included…” Read the full article here.
Source: Spending on E-Health Records Boosts Health IT Market: This Is IT – By Laura Criste, January 31, 2019. Bloomberg Government.
