Yale is a private school... and tuition from the Medical students most likely paid for this... so unless YOU have evidence for your claim?
Actually HIPAA —> ARRA/HITECH *does* provide incentives and requirments to move to electronic health records and demonstrate their meaningful use. So ... in a way our tax dollars ARE helping Yale Medical School and most ALL hospitals buy stuff.
It’s a big part of the ARRA.
In the end it is a good thing that healthcare providers are moving to EHRs. iPADS are a good tool, even if they are a platform tailor made for spreading nosocomial infections ;-)
If you are saying that Yale does not receive federal government money that is provided by taxpayers via the US Treasury/Printing press you might want to re-think that....
Yale and other universities have lots of Federal money poured in to them via grants. Student tuition is a factor but
Because of the federal subsidizes like this one that granted $93 million in federal "stimulus" money Yale has the ability to do this iPad program.
I looked at the Yale numbers a few years back for someone in our family. If I recall correctly their budget is about $2.5 billion a year. They have somewhere around 11,000 students. If you use a high number of $50,000 for a full time student there is no way tuition can run the place. I think they recently had a budget shortfall and were cutting back expenditures.
Private school? Kinda:)