inpatient Scheduling management – IP workflow solutions 

USAGE

Combining many different medical services and treatment types, inpatient departments deal with a wide variety of processes. This creates complex workflows that need specialist support within the EHR system.

Inpatient optimisation project
Custom-developed optimisation solutions across all inpatient settings.

Supported workflows

  • Ward attenders
  • Non-theatre procedures
  • Inpatient admissions
  • Regular day admissions
  • Diagnostics (radiology and pathology)
  • Patient-initiated follow-up
  • Post-admission follow-up
  • Surgical procedures
  • Solutions correspondence

BENEFITS

  • Expert consulting and development for complex inpatient workflows 

  • Fully defined project delivery model

  • Auditing capabilities to measure outcome on deliverables

  • Significant benefits in supporting daily ward tasks

  • Similar inpatient optimisation solutions successfully delivered for other healthcare organisations deployed with Oracle Cerner EHR

SCOPE

Workshops, analysis and requirements gathering

  • Understand current issues and required outcome
  • Analysis and documentation
  • Audits and current state build review
  • Project planning 
  • Define tasks, dependencies, risks and ownership
  • Solution appraisal 
  • Present solution, options and recommendations
  • Agreement with client
  • Proof of concept (POC) 
  • Develop a POC in a non-production environment
  • Testing and sign-off  
  • Internal e-health regression and functional testing/sign-off prior to trust handover
  • Trust testing and sign-off
  • Planning and go-live
  • Implementation planning (e.g. training, communications and impact assessment)
  • Implementation into live system
  • Post go-live support and trust handover
  • Early live stabilisation monitoring and support
  • Training and handover to BAU
  • Technical documentation for back-office maintenance