Streamlining hospital administration through robotic automation
Posted by articlelink01 on July 14th, 2015
Robotic Process Automation software is rapidly transforming today’s service industry, including hospital administration functions. Robotic Automation software is designed to replace a human workforce performing on-screen, rules based processing work. The Robots provide more accurate and faster service than humans at a fraction of the cost.
Patient info processing, reporting, human resource management and finance represent hospital administration robotic automation opportunities for cost reduction, error reduction and service improvement.
Robots can act as assistants for staff, as stand-alone workstation workers or as a complete virtual workforce, working from virtual desktops within a data center. Choosing the best fit configuration for your business is a critical component of a successful strategy and optimum long term results.
Dealing with sensitive data
Security and confidentiality of patient records are two critical areas within hospital administration. Here again, Robots outperform humans. Robots log into applications with the same user name and password credentials as humans. However, Robots only examine data directly relevant to the task at hand, they never make human errors and they have no motivation to use information or system access for fraudulent purposes.
Robotic automation can also be applied on virtual workstations within data centers which further limits access to keyboards and computer screens by non-approved eyes.
Efficient systems
Hospital administration robotic automation reduces administration costs, while improving administration service levels. The cost savings from administration can also be applied to achieving better medical outcomes for patients. This dynamic is helping transform the economics of healthcare, resulting in a higher proportion of each dollar being applied directly to medical programs and less to administration and support functions.
Rapid, tactical benefits are easily realized with robotic automation, however, more transformative achievements are accomplished with a comprehensive Robotics vision as a new means of service delivery driving innovation. Also, Robot’s ability to seamlessly manipulate information between disparate systems can also eliminate the need for large IT integration projects
Better accuracy
Robots are 100% accurate. As a result, hospital administration robotic automation results in fewer patient record errors and fewer medication errors.
Robots provide a complete audit trail of their activities, which can be used for analysis and compliance purposes. Robots can also be trained to audit the work of humans performing less structured processing work.
Easier to work with
Robotic automation is much easier to work with than humans. Robots don’t require coaching or ongoing training. Once one Robot is trained to do the work, all other robots immediately learn the same things. Robots don’t require the same supervision as humans and can work 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, without a break.
Robots are also more reliable and secure than humans. They do exactly what they are instructed to do and nothing more. A central control person can manage up to 30 Robots, each performing the work of between 2 to 4 staff. This significantly reduces management costs and improves capacity planning accuracy.
When processes or work applications are changed, only one Robot needs to be retrained and all other Robots immediately learn the same new process.
There are a range of technologies to choose from for Hospital Administration Robotic Automation..RPAi helps hospitals select the technology that best fits their business needs and then helps configure and train their Robot workforce. RPAi will also perform a Robot Fit Check to determine the scope of the Robotics opportunity within a hospital’s operations.
