Expenditures in the US healthcare IT market range between $17-42 billion (MEDSTAT, Datamonitor); Forrester estimates the market to be closer to $61 billion/year.  Hospitals account for 60% of the total market (Data Nation).   Institutional healthcare IT expenditures as a percentage of revenue have grown from 1-2% in 1998 to 4-5% currently (MEDSTAT).  Furthermore, growth is expected to accelerate and outpace other industries.  Growth estimates vary from 5-7% to 10-15% to as high as 18% (Data Nation, MEDSTAT); these positive trends are corroborated by Cap Gemini, who predicts that hospitals will spend between 6-10% of capital expenditures on IT in 2005.  These figures do not account for very large opportunities in foreign countries.