It is also one reason why some private health insurers are attempting to trim their reimbursements by turning to systems modeled on DRG's.

And with the growing emphasis on home health care, hospitals are also turning to alert systems for patients to use after they have been discharged.

In the early 1980's, Olay lost a sizable number of customers, who turned to many-step systems.

Seeking to save money on human customer service agents and to reduce waiting times for callers, corporations are increasingly turning to speech-recognition systems.

Campuses are also turning to more sophisticated systems.

As a result, operators had to turn to other systems to stabilize the water level.

As a result, car designers turned to computerized systems, including two-way telemetry, a relay of data that enables the pit crew to control the car.

Only after a common convention for bar codes had been established and in use for several years did retailers turn to such systems to transmit and receive data from suppliers.

Such teachers may "get desperate and turn to systems," she said.

Both cities turned to complex systems of siphons and aqueducts to solve their water problems.