How can hospitals use peoplesoft

The health system, with operations spanning multiple sites, deployed PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Capital Management, PeopleSoft Enterprise Financial Management and PeopleSoft Enterprise Supply Chain Management to automate its largely paper-based systems, driving improved productivity, facilitating financial reporting and streamlining materials management.

Built on a single Oracle infrastructure, the health system's implementation integrates information from across the organization for improved data integrity and comprehensive business intelligence. Prior to deployment, the organization ran on a combination of manually intensive human resources processes and non-integrated systems. The new HR system allows the health system to streamline business processes ranging from capital expenditures to recruitment.

For example, PeopleSoft Enterprise Talent Acquisition Manager allows job applicants to update personal information online, which streamlines the recruiting process and speeds time-to-hire. Further, the HR system now interfaces directly with health plan administrators for employee benefit plans, training and wellness initiatives — increasing employee satisfaction by reducing cycle times and improving services.

PeopleSoft Enterprise Financial Management allows Children's Hospital and Health System to ensure accurate financial reporting, run internal accounting controls and increase financial staff productivity. With a single centralized repository of asset data, PeopleSoft Asset Lifecycle Management becomes the core for all assets and related activities, giving you complete visibility into your assets enterprise-wide.

PeopleSoft has developed this solution which not only maintains the highly complex depreciation schedules required for hundreds of thousands of capital assets, it also tracks maintenance schedules, upgrade requirements, and lowers the cost of use by maximizing up-time.

Even more importantly, it provides an accurate tool, which improves the performance and safety of patient facing equipment. Most hospital departments are responsible for equipment assets that can cost millions, and proper asset management can help them plan effective service, maintenance and replacement around the lifecycle of each device.

Through out-of-the-box integration with other PeopleSoft Enterprise applications such as Project Costing, Asset Management, Purchasing, and Inventory, PeopleSoft Maintenance Management enables you to prioritize assets and ensure the right level of investment to meet utilization and financial goals. The new regulations mandate substantial changes in the ways hospitals manage medical equipment. This integration is achieved by leveraging PeopleSoft Inventory par location mobile carts functionality with POU supplier systems.

This integration is accomplished through the use of generic EIPs, using service operations in PeopleSoft Integration Broker to exchange applicable par locations, item counts, and expected receipt information between the PeopleSoft system and the POU supplier.

Although hand held devices are used in most industries they are particularly prevalent in hospital SCM settings. PeopleSoft offers two options regarding handheld devices.

This application provides the benefit of sharing data in a common database with the inventory module. A second option is the use of a third party mobile application. Delivered interfaces are provided with PeopleSoft to allow the sharing of data between the inventory module and third party hand held device software.