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Eight Good Reasons
So let’s summarize: HCM has the potential to be a great blessing for your
healthcare facility because it
1. reduces the workload for users, both in data acquisition and
data viewing.
2. reduces administration effort, depending on how many previously
individual
systems are centralized within the HCM system.
3. improves the quality of care by making information easier and more
widely
available (even to external users).
4. significantly improves service quality because patients can easily be
granted access to their own data.
5. simplifies data protection compliance (provided cyber security is taken
care
of professionally).
6. enables the timely delivery of billing-relevant data to cost units and may
therefore prevent financial deductions.
7. increases the chances of being able to retrieve evidential data in the
event of claims for damages.
8. forms the basis for future Big Data applications due to its centralized
data management.
Better not: in these cases you can do without HCM
In the IT sector chances are high that the proverbial sledgehammer is being used
to crack a nut. This is also the case with HCM. We would like to recommend the
following general advice:
The hallmark of an HCM system is its ability to pave the way for digitization,
allowing as many users as possible to use it unhindered. This
means that digital data and communication options are made available
at low thresholds using HCM. By implication, this idea assumes
that
the digitization path of a facility without HCM would be difficult to
approach and rocky, meaning that the house faces a large amount of
data and a certain degree of complexity of the data structure.