title: Point-of-care faces cost challenges.
abstract: A 1989 Computers in Healthcare survey finds considerably increased interest by hospital managers in bedside/point-of-care information systems, compared to results of a CIH survey in 1987. But cost-justifying these systems remains an obstacle to purchase decisions.
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D006268:Health Facilities; D006740:Hospital Administrators; D006751:Hospital Information Systems / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010362:Patients' Rooms; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States