Cost containment through information management.
Federal legislation requiring prospective payment based on diagnosis-related groups for Medicare patients is causing dramatic changes in medicine. In radiology departments, these changes have focused attention on the benefits accruing from the use of computer-based information systems.
D003363:Cost Control; D006748:Hospital Departments / Q000191:economics*; D007256:Information Systems; D008331:Management Information Systems; D006278:Medicare; D011872:Radiology Department, Hospital / Q000191:economics*; D014481:United States