Healthcare providers today face the challenges of providing continuous, high quality healthcare with shrinking budgets, departments, and staff. A robust enterprise resource planning (ERP) system that connects with the productivity applications your staff already uses can help you:
- Streamline existing cost accounting tasks
- Identify critical information necessary for decision making
- Improve overall efficiencies by bridging the gap between clinical system outcomes and the back office
- Lower total cost of ownership (TCO) significantly
- Automate human resources tracking
- Shorten system development and training time
An ERP system can help you realize these advantages because it helps you to improve and automate processes, including:
- Continuous monitoring of budgets and funding
- Lean and streamlined operational capabilities
- Automated care coordination activities and continuous analysis of improvement opportunities
- Workflows that can help to bridge gaps between separate systems, units, and departments as a way to streamline processes
Improve business operations to deliver services within your budget
Budgets that span across multiple business units require systems that allow for quick access to information and accurate views of available funds. With Microsoft Dynamics ERP, departmental budgets can be connected seamlessly to assess the state of the business and avoid budget overruns. A Microsoft Dynamics ERP solution gives you:
- More than 800 out-of-the-box reports that provide visibility for smart decision making
- More than 30 Role Centers, integrated directly into customizable workflows, that provide users with intuitive, graphical displays of business intelligence relevant to their specific departments and jobs
- Integration with familiar Microsoft programs, including Excel, SharePoint, Azure, and Lync, to help you improve efficiency and reduce costs with enhanced business operations as well as collaborate and share information among employees, departments, and partners
Enhance business intelligence for adaptability and visibility
Responding quickly and nimbly to shifting payer requirements and government regulations while maintaining business operations is critical for healthcare providers. With real-time insight and configurable workflows, Microsoft Dynamics ERP prepares provider organizations to adapt quickly to change without system disruptions.
- Adapt budgetary controls to help align resources with budget objectives, simplifying management of both daily financial processes and long-term projects.
- Increase visibility, internal controls, and reporting tools to help your organization stay a step ahead of compliance and administrative requirements.
- Bridge partnerships between physicians, nurses, specialists, clinicians, and administrators by integrating the tasks associated with each role through clear communication, easily accessed information, and development of role-specific solutions.
Create a better business foundation to increase productivity
Providing high-quality healthcare, reducing costs, and streamlining financials opens the door for more integrated, effective, and productive healthcare systems, hospitals, clinics, and long-term care facilities.
- Simplify complex payroll processes through user friendly features.
- Provide the infrastructure necessary to manage, track, and protect financial information in order to achieve compliance with regulatory mandates.
- Offer easy-to-use employee portals to simplify access to human resources data, ordering tools, and expense reporting and approvals.
- Introduce vendor self-service functionality to help streamline organizational relationships with suppliers and facilitate the procure-to-pay cycle.
- Automate application life cycle management to reduce the hassle of deployment, operation, and upgrades, helping to lower total cost of ownership from the outset.
- Play a critical role in improving operational efficiencies to increase productivity and reduce costs while providing high quality care.
To learn more about how a Microsoft ERP solution can help you improve efficiency and budget management in your healthcare organization, contact Microsoft or a Microsoft partner.
