Providing consulting services as an application service provider (ASP) featuring software in the field of financial management, planning, reporting, budgeting, and forecasting and in financial, clinical and operational risk assessment, exception reporting, trend identification, quality measurement, quality evaluation, quality management, quality assessment, and in critical performance driver evaluations; and providing rental of application software in the field of financial management, planning, reporting, budgeting, and forecasting and in financial, clinical and operational risk assessment, exception reporting, trend identification, quality measurement, quality evaluation, quality management, quality assessment, and in critical performance driver evaluations