A local health care facility reports that their costs have risen since they initiated the transition from paper to electronic patient information. HIPAA's administrative simplification effort was predicted to have an effect of decreasing costs. What would you infer from this information?

What will be an ideal response?


It is too early to conclude whether there will or will not be cost savings as implementation stages are associated with higher costs.

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