title: The myths of benchmarking healthcare IT spending.
abstract: Healthcare organizations should make those IT investments that they believe can be managed to achieve an acceptable return. They should make investment decisions based on the merits of the IT proposal, not because they have to catch up to another industry, such as banking.
authors.affiliation: Partners HealthCare, Boston, USA. jglaser@partners.org
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Glaser
mesh_terms: D019985:Benchmarking; D002202:Capital Financing; D005377:Financial Management, Hospital; D007256:Information Systems / Q000191:economics*; D014342:Truth Disclosure; D014481:United States