SAP Pre-configured Solutions addressing the needs of Healthcare

Today, healthcare providers are under enormous pressure, increased competition, government regulations, rising costs, and demands for higher quality health services are just some of the issues facing this vital industry. Undoubtedly, healthcare has become a tremendously complex business. The industry has to manage multiple locations, changing organizational structures, mergers, thousands of employees, and multiple information systems. Most important is to provide the best possible healthcare to all patients. Solutions that handle healthcare processes face a great challenge.

One of a hospital's greatest resources is its information. The hospital's information system, whether computerized or manual, is the means by which data is collected, integrated, and retrieved. However, because optimal patient treatment, financial management, and hospital operation require that decisions be based on current, accurate, complete, and well organized data, a computerized hospital information system (HIS), when correctly implemented, can be the most effective means of disseminating valuable information to decision makers. Most of the systems currently in place in most hospitals are used primarily to manage finances.

Our SAP pre-configured Healthcare Solution meets the dual challenge by combining the advantages of both the integrated and the complementary software approach. The solution for Healthcare integrates all hospital processes, and when combined with leading complementary applications, it provides a complete portfolio of solutions, applications, and services tailored to meet the needs of the healthcare industry. The solution manages and coordinates all aspects of patient care, from preregistration and bed assignments to patient relationship management.

It provides web-enabled functions for patient management and for diagnostics and therapy that not only improve the coordination and documentation of appointments and patient services, but also handles accelerated billing. The care management processes that help in developing and implementing new treatment strategies, and manage and document clinical care. It offers an integrated approach to payers, patients, practitioners, hospitals, and suppliers to provide effective clinic management. The data warehousing functions simplifies the strategic planning processes and provide information for target planning, resource costing, and product management.

Some of the benefits of our solution are and due integrated portfolio approach it possible to provide:

	Excellent patient services yet still improve your bottom line
	Strengthened supply-chain relationships
	Innovative methods for business planning and financial and management accounting
	Streamlined, automatic payment and debiting systems
	Enhanced financials reporting and analysis
	Enhanced organizational flexibility
	Enhanced strategic decision making through information management and data warehousing
	Improved patient management processes
	Streamlined patient accounting and billing
	Integrated internal communication, including service, medical, and administrative data scheduling processes
	Improved communication with providers, payers, patients, and suppliers
	Enhanced facility services
	Streamlined HR processes
	Improved inventory management, procurement processes, and equipment maintenance