Increasing costs of patient data processing and medical transcriptions are a growing concern for today’s healthcare organizations. The sole reason being, the revenue flow of such organizations are becoming dependent on insurance companies and government disbursements on the account of national health care programs. All such inflow of revenue for healthcare organizations are also becoming subject to the successful completion of cumbersome patient data compilations, which actually need to be entered and processed right at the patient entry level, till the time of his or her discharge from the healthcare units.

Patient data is vast, vital and critical, as it also contains the details of the insurance covers and it is the only accepted “commitment to disburse” for the health organization. Therefore along with diagnostic services and materials management, healthcare units also require to process third-party insurance claims involving a series of manual approval processes, paperwork and time.

With the growing health insurance providers and ongoing changes in government social security policies, it has become almost quintessential for healthcare organizations today to embrace ERP systems that can reduce time of payment as well as reduce costs of processing patient data. ERP systems that support such healthcare vertical functionalities are specifically designed to meet the critical EDI enabled financial accounting process, human resource management, and materials management requirements of healthcare providers.

Clinical materials management, which includes inventories of durable medical equipments to clinical consumables, is well taken care of by such ERP applications, as the shelf-life and movement of goods are critical for regulatory compliances.

Today healthcare organizations are increasingly using EDI facilities with the government departments and insurance companies to effectively process patient claims online and thereby reducing manual transactions. Healthcare ERP’s are also being integrated with OCR technologies, aiming to reduce the costs of data entry by making the process totally automated. Such OCR technologies are extracting vital data from the scanned forms and records with minimal human interventions.

ATNA’s consulting services in the healthcare vertical includes

• F&A : Financial Management, General Ledger, Financial and Analytical Reporting, Budgeting & Forecasting, Accounts Payables, Bank Reconciliation, Fixed Assets, Grant Management & Miscellaneous Billing
• Human Resource Management: Human Resources, Payroll with Direct Deposit, Employee Self-Service, Time & Attendance
• Materials Management (Purchasing): Web-based Requisitioning, Inventory Control, Purchase Orders, Bar Coding & RF Scanning