QUESTION

Discuss the benefits to a healthcare organization of acquiring and using the ten necessary decision support tools such as:

. Daily administrative and management dashboards on the computer desktop

. Monthly balanced scorecard of financial, clinical, quality, and satisfaction indicators (metrics)

. Benchmarking

. Flexible budgeting and monitoring

. Labor management

. Nonlabor management

. Service line, physician, and patient-level reporting and analysis

. Cost accounting technology

. Contract management technology

. Denials management software