I imagine it will be equivalent of 1-2 semesters of college courses ($3-5,000). It's not like we can just throw a highly discoverable UI at them and hope most nurses can figure it out.
The medical office assistant now needs to understand the whole system well enough to figure out which external records are mine (and not those of another guy with the same name as me living in Buffalo). That's trickier than figuring out ebay.
It might be a bit short of $15k/person, but its not too far off.
There are deployment costs. Existing business practices will need to be changed. The transition will need to be seamless, or else treatment orders get lost. Add in the costs of it being a government operation, and you get a number on the order of $100 billion.
Maybe $50 billion is a better number than $100 billion, but $1 billion is probably far short of what it should be.
The medical office assistant now needs to understand the whole system well enough to figure out which external records are mine (and not those of another guy with the same name as me living in Buffalo). That's trickier than figuring out ebay.
It might be a bit short of $15k/person, but its not too far off.
There are deployment costs. Existing business practices will need to be changed. The transition will need to be seamless, or else treatment orders get lost. Add in the costs of it being a government operation, and you get a number on the order of $100 billion.
Maybe $50 billion is a better number than $100 billion, but $1 billion is probably far short of what it should be.