Healthcare ERP:
key features, platforms & benefits

Healthcare ERP: key features, platforms & benefits

November 19, 2024

Konstantin Pilkevich

by Konstantin Pilkevich,

Head of ERP Center of Excellence

Healthcare ERP is enterprise software that automates and streamlines administrative and operational workflows within healthcare organizations, like hospitals, clinics, or medical practices, helping them better control resources, centralize data management, and improve patient care.

Itransition helps healthcare companies develop and implement secure ERP solutions, aligning the software functionality with their unique needs and ensuring compliance with healthcare industry regulations.

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Healthcare ERP core functionality

The key features of healthcare ERP software depend on the type of healthcare organization that plans to implement it, as well as the healthcare company’s needs and requirements. Itransition implements custom and platform-based ERP solutions, tailoring ERP functionality to the unique needs of healthcare companies to streamline their business operations.

Healthcare ERP core functionality

Gaining better visibility into the financial health of your company and streamlining financial processes to optimize resource allocation and meet regulatory requirements.

  • General ledger, accounting, and expense management
  • Accounts payable and receivable
  • Medical billing
  • Insurance claims processing
  • Financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting

Improving the efficiency of HR activities by automating complex payroll calculations and shift scheduling for administrative and patient-focused staff.

  • Employee record management
  • Payroll management
  • Workforce demand planning
  • Workforce scheduling and employee shift management
  • Attendance and leave management
  • Benefits and compensation control

Automating healthcare supply chain to improve its resilience and ensure a continuous flow of medical supplies to support high-quality patient care.

  • Demand forecasting and planning
  • Supplier relationship management and supplier risk control
  • Medical equipment and materials procurement
  • Medical supply transportation management
  • Health facility warehouse management and inventory tracking
  • Medical supply expiration tracking

Automating asset management across all medical facilities and enabling timely asset maintenance to maximize medical equipment lifespan and utilization.

  • Real-time asset tracking with RFID tags
  • Asset cost management
  • Medical asset predictive and reactive maintenance
  • Repair tracking
  • Equipment recall management
  • Medical asset purchase, disposition, and replacement planning

Streamlining the management of various projects within healthcare organizations, such as clinical trials and hospital expansions, to ensure their cost-effectiveness and timely delivery.

  • Project planning and scheduling
  • Budgeting and project cost tracking
  • Human resource allocation
  • Task management
  • Project risk management

Automating data collection, analysis, visualization, and reporting to derive actionable insights into medical organization’s operations.

  • Health facility data centralization and storage
  • Scheduled and ad-hoc reporting
  • Financial analytics and reporting
  • HR data trend analysis
  • Asset usage and maintenance analytics
  • Project data analytics and KPI tracking
  • Regulatory compliance auditing and reporting

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Key integrations of healthcare ERP software

Connecting your healthcare ERP system with other types of healthcare solutions can help consolidate all corporate information, enable data-driven and informed decisions, and boost the transparency of your operations.

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EHR/EMR
Healthcare CRM
Hospital management software
Laboratory information management system
Patient portals
Telemedicine platforms
Business intelligence tools

Key characteristics of healthcare ERP

Interoperability

Healthcare ERP solutions need to support multiple data formats, including JSON, XML, CSV, and HL7, as well as RESTful and SOAP APIs or custom connectors to seamlessly integrate and exchange data with your existing healthcare software and eliminate data silos.

Security & compliance

Given the importance of data security for healthcare organizations, ERP software needs to support safe APIs, data encryption at rest and in transit, and robust access controls to safeguard sensitive data, including patient information, as well as comply with major healthcare industry regulations.

Mobility

Healthcare ERP software should be complemented with robust mobile applications for your medical and administrative staff to manage their schedules, coordinate patient care tasks, update their billing information, and receive important alerts and notifications on the go.

Best healthcare ERP platforms on the market

When custom ERP software development seems unfeasible, healthcare companies should consider platform-based ERP software. Below, Itransition shares top ERP solutions on the market that can be customized to the needs of healthcare organizations.

Odoo is a suite of ERP applications for managing core enterprise workflows, including finance, billing and invoicing, HR, inventory, and supply chain management. There are two versions of the platform: a free, open-source Odoo Community edition and a subscription-based Odoo Enterprise edition. The pricing for the Odoo Enterprise edition depends on the number of implemented modules and the number of active users.

Odoo
Pros
  • Extensive configuration and customization capabilities make it easy to adapt the software to the needs of healthcare institutions, i.e., patient appointment scheduling, medical staff shift management, automated billing, as well as equipment and inventory management
  • Ease of integration with third-party software
  • Healthcare-specific add-ons available in the official Odoo Apps store
  • Free trial option
  • Cloud (SaaS) and on-premises deployment
Cons
  • Lack of pre-built healthcare features
  • Requires expertise to configure and customize Odoo ERP to the needs of healthcare companies and industry compliance requirements

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

Dynamics 365 Business Central is an all-in-one ERP solution designed for small and midsize healthcare organizations that want to implement a rather simple and cost-effective ERP system.

MicrosoftBusiness
Pros
  • Natively integrates with multiple Microsoft products, like Office or Outlook
  • Offers functionality for financial, HR, project, supply chain, and inventory management
  • Can be easily tailored to the specific needs of healthcare organizations, offering features like patient billing and medical facility inventory tracking
  • User-friendly with a simple interface
  • Integrated Power BI data analytics
Cons
  • Limited customization capabilities
  • Integration with third-party software requires expertise

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & SCM (formerly known as Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations) is a comprehensive ERP software for large organizations across multiple industries, including healthcare. The solution is better suited for healthcare providers already using Microsoft tools.

MicrosoftFinance
Pros
  • Available as a part of the Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare package
  • Seamlessly integrates with other Microsoft tools and solutions
  • Advanced analytics with Power BI tool
  • Features functionality for patient engagement, secure management of clinical documentation, and healthcare personnel management
  • Streamlines healthcare finance, inventory, and supply chain management, especially for large companies with complex processes
Cons
  • Complex, time-consuming, and resource-intensive customization
  • Steep learning curve

NetSuite is cloud-based ERP software for managing core business operations across multiple industries. NetSuite also includes a SuiteSuccess Healthcare Edition, an ERP solution designed and pre-configured specifically for healthcare organizations.

Netsuite
Pros
  • Cloud-native ERP with the software infrastructure managed by the vendor
  • Offers functionality for financial management and inventory, asset, and user activity administration
  • HIPAA-compliant data management processes
  • Strong in-built security measures to protect sensitive information
  • User-friendly interface
Cons
  • Lack of healthcare-specific functionality
  • Prices may hike up in the long run

Infor CloudSuite Healthcare

Infor CloudSuite Healthcare is a comprehensive ERP software built on top of the Infor cloud-based system for managing key processes of healthcare organizations, such as hospitals, clinics, and long-term care facilities.

Infor
Pros
  • Offers functionality for managing clinical operations, as well as workforce, finance, and supply chain processes
  • Advanced analytics capabilities
  • Ease of integrating EHR/EMR systems like Epic or Cerner
  • Highly scalable
Cons
  • Platform implementation and maintenance require significant technical expertise
  • Fewer customization capabilities compared to its competitors

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Benefits of ERP software for healthcare

Improved patient care

By consolidating all operational data in one system and decreasing the amount of manual back-office administrative tasks, healthcare professionals can focus more on delivering accurate and attentive care to patients.

Better control of supplies

Implementing ERPs with the functionality for supply chain management, healthcare facilities can ensure that medical supplies, including equipment and pharmaceuticals, are available when needed, minimizing delays in deliveries, stockouts, and wastage.

Optimized revenue cycle management

By automating billing processes, optimizing claim and reimbursement management, and tracking financial performance, healthcare companies can reduce errors in billing and ensure timely payments from patients and insurance providers.

Streamlined collaboration

A smooth information flow across the organization connects finance, clinical, human resources, and supply chain departments and ensures better coordination between administrative and clinical teams.

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