Completion requirements
You can use the balanced scorecard to make big-picture strategic decisions. After you read this article, you should be able to create a balanced scorecard for your organization.
Implementing the Balanced Scorecard in a Public Hospital
Internal Processes Perspective
Hospitals are large sized organizations with a high concentration of capital and a higher inertia of internal processes. Internal processes of a hospital mainly relate:
- Strategic management of the organization;
- Operational management of information;
- HR management;
- Environment care management;
- Quality services management;
- Patient rights and communication;
- Management of patient data;
- Prevention and risk management;
- Management of nosocomial infections.
Data Sources:
- Integrated Quality Management System (ISO standards and operating procedures);
- Internal analysis based on classification system DRG;
- Medical statistics;
- Internal control management & risk management;
Objectives:
- Improving internal work processes;
- Increasing the efficiency of work processes;
- Intensifying the monitoring and control activities in each medical department to eliminate existing risks and efficient use of resources allocated by monitoring indicators for the use of services regularly:
- Number of patients discharged;
- Average length of stay;
- Utilization rate of beds;
- Complexity index of discharged cases;
- Proportion of patients hospitalized with programming in all hospitalized patients;
- Proportion of emergencies in all patients.
- Development of prevention and control of resources allocated to protect against losses due to waste, abuse, errors and frauds;
- Improving communication between hospital structures to ensure operational flow of information without distortion, so that they can be exploited effectively in the prevention and internal control;
- Designing in each structure of performance standards for each activity, in order to use them to perform analyzes based on objective criteria for exploitation of allocated resources;
- Establishing mutually advantageous relations with partners:
Assessment of the relation with partners
Target goal | Indicators | Objective | Level | Person in charge |
---|---|---|---|---|
The level of unpaid bills to suppliers on due date | The number of unpaid bills to suppliers on due date | 0 | Tactical | CFO |
The level of uncollected sales | Uncollected bills on due date on each client | 0 |