title: Implement balanced scorecard to translate strategic plan into actionable objectives.
abstract: Faced with challenges ranging from declining reimbursement to staff shortages, health care organizations--integrated delivery systems, physician group practices, disease management providers, and others--increasingly are turning to general business models to map out step-by-step action plans for performance measurement and process improvement. Creating a "balanced scorecard" is an obvious starting point for assessing and improving clinical and financial performance.
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D007255:Information Services; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D010934:Planning Techniques; D014481:United States