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Discuss the potential benefits and challenges of using benchmarking within healthcare. Pick one specific operational challenge and answer the following questions:
What are the benefits of using benchmarking within healthcare?
What are the challenges of using benchmarking in healthcare?
How does benchmarking factor into financial matters from an operational perspective?
Benchmarking is a part of quality management program.It is a continious process by which a organization can measure and compare its processes with other organizations. There are 4 types of benchmarking like
Benefits of using benchmarking in healthcare
Challenges:
The benchmarking has a financial impact to the operational department leading to expences to be done on new inventions in healthcare sector