Five Years of Total His Cost Accounting, Analysis and Prognosis

In earlier MIE-papers was reported on a cost allocation model used around Leiden University Hospital Information System and results obtained. The figures are extended now to a five years period and it is found that, notwithstanding an average growth rate in HIS use of about 20% per year, total HIS costs at Leiden are not increasing and almost stable at 1.4% of the hospital budget. This result is contradictory to what is often expected.