Healthcare

Healthcare is a vital industry that is constantly transforming through research and science, but at the same time maintains many of the core processes to ensure the best patient outcomes. While many processes around patient care and treatment are similar across countries, regulations and billing and authorization processes may vary. This means that the technology supporting healthcare providers also must support those differences.

SAP and Partner Solutions for Food and Beverage

There are many solutions in the SAP ecosystem that are relevant to the Healthcare sector:

Healthcare is a vital industry that is constantly transforming through research and science, but at the same time maintains many of the core processes to ensure the best patient outcomes. While many processes around patient care and treatment are similar across countries, regulations and billing and authorization processes may vary. This means that the technology supporting healthcare providers also must support those differences.

SAP and Partner Solutions for Food and Beverage

There are many solutions in the SAP ecosystem that are relevant to the Healthcare sector:

  • Health Engagement and Experience helps with Patient Engagement using marketing and customer experience tools, while provider engagement helps maintain the caregiver experience with core ERP and experience solutions.
  • Patient Diagnosis to Recovery solutions aim to streamline surgeries and medical intervention processes, and support successful care delivery using solutions unique to the healthcare industry.
  • Healthcare Provider Admission to Cash ensures drug safety and compliance through tracking and tracing. They also help with patient management through patient administration and billing tools.
  • Data and analytics provide data insights to help inform medical decisions. Data integration ensures healthcare organizations are capitalizing on the data available to them to provide the best care.
  • Integration with electronic medical records software to help provide greater context to patient data.
  • HCM and HXM solutions help organizations with recruiting, onboarding, talent management, and more.
  • Supply Chain Management to help pharmaceutical companies and medical equipment manufacturers from material to distribution.
  • Security tools to ensure protection of sensitive medical information and pharmaceutical research.

Many hospitals and other healthcare sites are commonly at or close to capacity, so the need for efficient and effective care is important. Timely access to patient data, insights on the best care, streamlined payment and care authorization, and delivery of medical equipment and medicines are essential.

Key Considerations for SAPinsiders

Organizations in the healthcare industry are utilizing SAP and partner solutions as part of their transformation programs.

  • American Red Cross deploys self-service business intelligence (BI). Read this case study to learn how the American Red Cross overcame architectural data challenges to enable deployment of self-service BI to 6,000 users.
  • Varian’s journey to SAP S/4HANA. Discover lessons learned in this case study from Varian on their journey from Oracle to SAP Business Suite on HANA, then to SAP S/4HANA.
  • Sanofi overhauled its SAP Security infrastructure. In the face of increasing attacks, pharmaceutical company Sanofi revamped its SAP cybersecurity processes and technology to bring in event-based monitoring and patch management. Read this case study to learn more.

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