Managers often track both nonfinancial and financial data by means of an executive dashboard. An executive dashboard, sometimes called a business performance dashboard, is a software program that presents key business information in graphical, easy-to-interpret form and alerts managers to any deviations or unusual patterns in the data. Dashboards pull data from a variety of organizational systems and databases; gauge the data against key performance metrics; and pull out the right nuggets of information to deliver to managers’ laptops or PCs for analysis and action. For example, at Emergency Medical Associates, a physician owned medical group that manages emergency rooms for hospitals in New York and New Jersey, dashboards enable managers to quickly see when performance thresholds related to patient wait times or other metrics aren’t being met at various hospitals.