title: Treating technology as a luxury? 10 necessary tools.
abstract: Technology and techniques that every hospital should acquire and use for effective financial management include: Daily dashboards. Balanced scorecards. Benchmarking. Flexible budgeting and monitoring. Labor management systems. Nonlabor management analysis. Service, line, physician, and patient-level reporting and analysis. Cost accounting technology. Contract management technology. Denials management software.
authors.affiliation: Healthcare Insights, LLC., Libertyville, Ill, USA. sberger@hcillc.com
authors.forename: Steven H
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Berger
mesh_terms: D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D005377:Financial Management, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D013672:Technology; D014481:United States