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Faster throughput times of care referrals at specialized healthcare clinics
In this use case we automated the registration process of patients at a specialized healthcare organization with the use of RPA. Our solution resulted in improved data quality in the electronic patient records, faster throughput times of patients and thereby freeing up time for medical staff to have more personal interaction with each patient.
Use case
At the customer service department (CSD) at a healthcare clinic, healthcare referrals from general practitioners come in per email on a daily basis. Subsequently, a worker at the CSD has to process those referrals in their electronic patient record system, EMMA. After that, the worker uses the referral to check whether the patient is a known patient. If that is not the case, the patient is added to the electronic record, based on its social service number. Lastly, the worker must add the referral documents to the patient record as well.
The entire processing takes over 750 referrals a week, and those are all processed manually. The fact that each transaction has a lengthy throughput time, makes the complete process time consuming. This has the consequence that patients might not be addressed on a timely manner and that valuable contact time with the patient is lost.
Applied technologies
3 weeks delivery time
2
Months to ROI
2701
Hours saved anually
95%
Error reduction
200%
Increased time efficiency
Our solution
We created an RPA solution that constantly monitors the mailbox from the customer service department (CSD). When an email containing a referral comes in, the virtual employee reads the email and extracts the relevant information. It then chooses how much of all information is to be added to the electronic patient record of this respective patient. All these steps are performed in the background. Our robot was built to perform the following tasks:
- is triggered manually at the office
- reads and extracts healthcare referral from email
- checks if patient exists in electronic patient record system (EMMA)
- if not, adds patient to record system based on its social service number
- adds referral documents to patient record
Our solution reduced a significant amount of the workload of the customer service department. Annually, 1701 hours are saved that now can be used for more value-adding tasks. Also, patients can now be helped 20 hours earlier. This greatly contributes to the patient experience.
Our RPA robot offers a solution that is effective, efficient and reliable. Healthcare workers can stop wasting time on administrative tasks and refocus on work that matters.
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