Assess Technology for Effective Decision Making
The provision of healthcare in the current society is increasingly becoming challenging. The environment of healthcare provision is changing.
The entire healthcare industry is significantly changing. The patient outcomes are improving, business processes are being redesigned. Risk management initiatives and quality execution have become quite challenging (Eschenbach, 1992).
The external factors like the reimbursement programs of the government and forces that are internal to the industry like competition and shifting market baskets. It is, therefore, critical for any healthcare institution to be able to adjust to the changes.
Proper decision making is, therefore, a huge necessity in the hospitals and other health systems. To make appropriate decisions, there is need to improve the technology employed.
The Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is one of the technologies that, if implemented, can lead to improved decision making in the healthcare industry.
This article presents a description of ERP, its effectiveness in supporting ethical and fruitful business, promoting communication at the different levels of the organizations, and how it influences the various approaches in decision making.
