Study: Spending on health IT would generate 212,105 jobs

A $10 billion investment in health information technology as part of a planned economic recovery package would create or retain 212,105 jobs in one year, according to the Washington, DC-based think tank Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. The ITIF endorsed health IT spending, along with spending on broadband networks and a smart power grid, as components of a larger economic stimulus package Congress is expected to introduce. ITIF President Robert Atkinson said the organization does not necessarily advocate the amounts of spending that it analyzed. but the analysis of the job-creation effects could be extrapolated to a larger or smaller amount of spending.