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Article: It's a jungle out there: strategies for controlling information systems costs. (Cover Story)
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- Healthcare Financial Management
- Article date:
- June 1, 1994
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1994 Healthcare Financial Management Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
This article discusses four major areas where healthcare financial managers can reconcile the conflicting goals their healthcare organizations face: keeping up with the latest in technology while at the same time constantly striving to reduce healthcare information systems costs.
There are four major ways healthcare financial managers can reduce hospital costs while maximizing their hospitals' return on hospital information systems (HIS) investments:
Controlling computer consultant costs. Computer consultants are commonly used in hospitals, but they are not always necessary. When hospitals do need consultants, there are ways to ...