Methods for Evaluating Costs of Automated Hospital Information Systems

摘要

Sponsored by the National Center for Health Services Research, this study was conducted to critique methodologies for assessing the cost impacts of automated hospital information systems (AHIS). Research done in these studies to the identification, prediction or measurement, and analytical treatment of specific cost impacts are compared and their adequacy and validity assessed. Conclusions are drawn about the current state of the art of assessing AHIS cost impacts. Recommendations are made concerning the best available techniques. Further research is also recommended in the improvement of specific cost assessment methods and in the development of better information on the influence of automated information handling on hospital costs.