title: Development of a decision support system for cost analysis.
abstract: Korean hospitals are experiencing an increasing amount of financial difficulty due to government control of hospital rates since national health insurance has been implemented. The decision support system (DSS) was developed to provide cost and revenue information for the services rendered by each department in an effort to reduce costs. This information may be used to identify the causes of financial loss if cost exceeds revenue and to develop budgets for the next year. The DSS was developed using a micromainframe interface approach where the mainframe computer collects and summarises daily cost data and the micro computer allocates the data to each department.
mesh_terms: D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis / Q000379:methods*; D003660:Decision Support Systems, Management; D005377:Financial Management, Hospital / Q000379:methods*; D007723:Korea; D013223:Statistics as Topic