title: Hospitals taking a hard look at 'soft benefits'.
abstract: Hospitals buy systems for their "qualitative" benefits and not just to save money or cut costs. But these "soft" benefits can be nearly as elusive as hard-dollar savings, concluded a study conducted for Modern Healthcare by Coopers & Lybrand and Zinn Enterprises. Second in a series.
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authors: Gardner
mesh_terms: D003132:Commerce; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006751:Hospital Information Systems / Q000191:economics*; D012984:Software; D013223:Statistics as Topic