Arthur D. Little, a well-known consulting firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, conducted one study that counted $15 billion the U.S. could save every year just by digitizing everyone’s medical records and putting them online, available to anyone with the right pass codes anywhere in the country.
Predictor: Arthur D. Little Inc.
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 article for Wired magazine, Joe Flower explains the types of changes that could come in health care through the use of networked computing. Flower writes:”Arthur D. Little, a well-known consulting firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, conducted one study that counted $15 billion the U.S. could save every year just by digitizing everyone’s medical records and putting them online, available to anyone with the right pass codes anywhere in the country.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: Medical/Professional
Name of publication: Wired
Title, headline, chapter name: The Other Revolution in Health Care: Leave Hillary and Bill Out of It … The Health Care System is Going to Change Drastically Over the Next Decade
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.01/healthcare_pr.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney