Laboratory Information System’s: What is the true cost of ownership?

Healthcare IT, Laboratory Information Systems (LIS), Laboratory-to-physician, LIS-to-EMR, SaaS

What is the true cost of laboratory information systems (LIS) that support pathology?  When calculating, there are items that seem quite obvious and others that may be overlooked.  Software licensing and annual maintenance fees of traditional systems make up the majority of the obvious expenditures.  In the ever evolving health-care IT (HIT) world, one needs…