The costs I don't, but I'll give you a Canadian example of an innovative system for bringing electronic prescribing assistance devices into the hands of physicians.
It's from Montreal. Dr. Robyn Tamblyn, at McGill University, runs a project called the Medical Office of the 21st Century, otherwise nicknamed MOXXI. This is a project in which they've enlisted physicians and pharmacists into a system where, at the point of clinical encounter—that is, when the doctor is seeing the patient—they have a BlackBerry-like device, or a Palm Pilot-like device, that provides them with menu-driven information not only about the drugs they are selecting in that encounter for the patient, but also about the drugs that were prescribed by them and other doctors to that patient and whether the patient filled those prescriptions, because that can be an important part of dialogue, to say, “Well, why not fill this?”
So I would encourage this committee perhaps to invite Dr. Tamblyn to speak before you. The results from the Canadian trials of these devices are astounding. The ability with which they have been able to improve quick prescribing is quite impressive.