affiliated with creating online tutorials, a literature review was conducted in the guise of creating video tutorials for an academic library environment. The findings from this literature review are expanded upon here: In creating an online tutorial, it is best to keep the length of the tutorial relatively short.
Study participants on average spent $5,900 on purchases related to hardware, software, peripherals, and network connections. 1  About half of the practices averaged $3,094 for IT and other outside support costs. 2  These costs do not factor in overtime pay or other workflow inefficiencies. Averaged across all 30 practices, out-of-pocket expenses in the first 6 months of an implementation reached $6,516. In a similar study published in the March 2011 issue of Health Affairs, 26 primary care practices in North Texas implemented an EHR across their medical network. The researchers considered the hardware/software costs, as well as the staff members' time and effort to complete the implementation. They determined that a typical multiphysician practice would spend about $162,000 to implement an EHR, with $85,500 for first-year maintenance costs.
1 The cost of data breach varies by industry. 2  The average global cost of data breach per lost or stolen record is $154. 3  However, if a healthcare organization has a breach, the average cost could be as high as $363, and in education the average cost could be as high as $300. The lowest cost per lost or stolen record is in transportation ($121) and public sector ($68) . 2  Hackers and criminal insiders cause the most data breaches. 3  Forty-seven percent of all breaches in this year's study were caused by malicious or criminal attacks. 4  The average cost per record to resolve such an attack is $170.