Computer systems for hospital cost accounting are in widespread use in foreign hospitals. In Norway, few hospitals have adopted such systems. Two products are currently being developed in Norway: KosPa (a system for calculating DRG costs) and Nirvana (a system intended for presentation of costs, rather than for overhead allocations and cost calculations). Both of these systems will have rather limited uses. If an organization needs a more comprehensive system with a wider selection of features, there are no Norwegian alternatives. It should be possible to implement a foreign system without too much trouble.