title: Health care market experiences grouper software explosion.
abstract: Prospective payment has created a need for PPS hospitals to assign patients to DRGs quickly and accurately. Vendors have responded with a flood of computer software that not only assigns DRGs, but also performs other sophisticated data collection functions. The array of software powers has confused many buyers over what their facilities should purchase. Important questions must be answered before investing hundreds or thousands of dollars on grouper software.
mesh_terms: D003201:Computers; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D003657:Decision Making; D003953:Diagnosis-Related Groups; D006748:Hospital Departments; D006801:Humans; D008500:Medical Records Department, Hospital; D011445:Prospective Payment System; D012984:Software; D014481:United States