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Hospital Enterprise Management Dashboard - managing health care facility KPIs with executive dashboards

From Cincinatti comes a couple of executive dashboard screenshots used at a hospital there to track profitability metrics. It is a popular main front-end tool for the Chief Financial Officer’s staff to pull financial reports. The first dashboard screenshot shows, on the right side of the screen, a panel where you can toggle the various reports and KPIs that you can show on the dashboard. The second executive dashboard screenshot shows some of the sophisticated graphing that dashboard users can use. This particular shot shows a bubble graph visualization of the profitability of a patient stay with length of stay as a variable.

Hospital financial dashboard

CFO Dashboard Chart

Homework: If you are a health care professional and need to study up on the financial side of your business, start with the book, Financial Analysis and Decision Making for Healthcare Organizations: A Guide for the Healthcare Professional.

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