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Why electronic medical records increased health care spending:
Research found it increased diagnostic testing by 40 to 70 percent at some institutions, as clinicians acted on information that paper records had obscured.
Why AI is also likely to increase health care costs:
Earlier cancer detection expands the population receiving treatment, not just those who would have presented later with more advanced disease. Better diagnostics surface conditions that would have gone unmanaged. New therapies enter at premium prices that reflect development costs and market power, not clinical value alone. The treated population grows, utilization rises, and the system spends more on care that is genuinely better but more expensive. The value is real. So is the inflation. They are not in tension; they are the same phenomenon.