Enterprise Resource Planning

Enterprise Resource Planning

Implementation of Erp in health care

In today's environment cost is a growing parameter day by day also the reimbursements in the healthcare industry pose a major challenge. Providers are treating the patients who are uninsured or underinsured. Though only corporate hospitals have the capacity to integrate an ERP into the organization but the benefit of cost reduction achieved as the result of ERP are considerably high.

Staffing Issues

Since staffing is a major issue in the service sector because this sector majorly relies on human capital. ERP solutions help the organizations to select the nurses etc in a better and organized way thereby reducing the time to recruitment and improving organizational efficiency. A better comparison can be made using ERP. This can be achieved using HMS module.

With the advance of ERP the need to recruit IT professionals to manage the various applications and develop new ones on a regular basis has come to an end. ERP proves to be a one stop shop.

Growing Consumerism

Healthcare industry is also experiencing a growing consumerism. Since the patient pay high costs for their treatments and medical checkups they expect more interaction with the providers. Also a comprehensive relationship between provider and consumer must exist. To overcome such issues and thereby improving the overall quality of care ERP has become a dire need.

Greater Reach to Patient

Since ERP provides an integrated business solution and also it is net based system so it provides the hospitals to make a better reach to their customers. The customer feedbacks that the hospitals received through their site are directly integrated into performance evaluation part of the ERP. Also patients can directly log into their profiles that are maintained by the hospitals through the site. Thereby providing them a faster access to their information and hospital saves upon the time.

Improving Effectiveness, Efficiency & Compliance

It is very important from the hospital's point of view to find highly skilled labor but it has become difficult in today's environment. The turnover rates are continuously rising. Healthcare industry is facing major problems in finding the skilled labor due to which they pay overtime to their workers and also outsource some of their operations which proves to be a costly affair. The workloads are continuously increasing and the recruitment processes are becoming more and more complex. Also HR departments are continuously relying upon paper based systems. In such a situation a ERP software that is fully integrated and provides suitable HR functions would be of great value to the organization. It would not only increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the organization but would also help in reducing overall operational cost and would save time.

Computerization

Personnel in the health care industry are not much adaptive towards new technologies in their office equipments rather they prefer to continuously update their clinical equipments. But in this age of rocket science it has become very much necessary to be up to date with latest technologies in the market. Medical and paramedical professionals have taken steps to keep ...