At present we are showcasing OpenERP for the Healthcare Sector in the UK at the EHI Live in Birmingham.
Our Scheduling module, which we are currently finalising, created a lot of interest. It was also a starting point which emphasised challenges a lot of NHS healthcare providers are facing.
In the ‘good’ old days of the National Programme for IT, ERP solutions, or to be precise, modules of proprietary ERP solutions, have been acquired by the NHS nationally, namely the HR module of one very big vendor in the ERP space. Costs weren’t an issue, because the license fees were covered by the National Programme for IT.
Now the NPfIT has been abandoned, the healthcare organisations have to cover the whole cost of the ‘solution'. They soon realised, that the current installation really does not cover their needs beyond a central repository of electronic staff records.
Challenge 1
Leave management is still done paper based, leave cards are shuffled back and forth between front line staff and their managers, and once a leave has been approved a spreadsheet is updated by admin staff which in turn is passed on to the HR department, then results in the leave information being inserted manually into the system..
Couldn’t it be done smarter? Absolutely!
You just need to buy additional licences, hire very expensive consultants and off you go…
Challenge 2
Scheduling / Rota planning of frontline staff is still done manually in different systems, so once leave has been approved, a configurer has to update the rota based on printed pieces of paper or an email. Broken processes and points of error all around, which lead to lower patient satisfaction and inefficient use of your resources.
Yes, there is a module out there of said provider, but again you pay the licence fees, need expensive consultants to implement and it takes a very long time to do so.
Your value proposition is far from ideal: high costs and a relative long time until the benefits kick in.
The solution
OpenERP HR in conjunction with our Scheduling module will be able to cover all of that for a fraction of the Cost of Total ownership and deliver benefits far quicker.
Talk to us.
Healthcare service efficiency delivered, the open source way: Valuedecision.
Monday, 7 May, 2012 