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In the fast-paced environment of healthcare facilities, the efficient management of operations is crucial for delivering quality patient care and ensuring smooth day-to-day operations. This is where Hospital Management Systems (HMS) step in to streamline processes and enhance efficiency. Let's explore how these systems address key aspects such as patient management, inventory integration, scheduling automation, financial tracking, and performance analytics to optimize workflow and improve overall efficiency.

Patient Management: A robust patient management module within an HMS is essential for maintaining accurate patient records, tracking medical history, and ensuring seamless patient care delivery. With features like electronic health records (EHR), appointment scheduling, and patient tracking, healthcare providers can efficiently manage patient information and provide personalized care.

Inventory Integration: Efficient inventory integration is crucial for managing medical supplies, pharmaceuticals, and equipment within a healthcare facility. An HMS with integrated inventory management capabilities enables real-time tracking of stock levels, automated replenishment processes, and efficient utilization of resources, ensuring that healthcare providers have access to the supplies they need when they need them.

Scheduling Automation: Scheduling appointments, surgeries, and other healthcare services can be time-consuming and prone to errors if done manually. Scheduling automation features within an HMS streamline the appointment booking process, optimize resource allocation, and reduce scheduling conflicts, ensuring that patients receive timely care while maximizing operational efficiency.

Financial Tracking: Effective financial tracking is essential for managing revenue streams, tracking expenses, and ensuring financial sustainability. An HMS with robust financial management capabilities enables healthcare providers to track billing and reimbursement processes, monitor revenue cycles, and generate accurate financial reports, facilitating better financial decision-making and compliance with regulatory requirements.

Performance Analytics: Performance analytics capabilities within an HMS provide valuable insights into key performance indicators (KPIs), operational metrics, and trends within a healthcare facility. By analyzing data related to patient flow, resource utilization, and clinical outcomes, healthcare providers can identify areas for improvement, optimize workflows, and enhance overall performance.

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By Michelle Yuan, Bindo

  In recent years, small business owners have likely faced one opponent more formidable than even your liveliest competitor: The changing face of retail. Customers have decided they want it all. You need to be sustainable and have a social impact component and you need to have every product they want, when they want, and where they want it. Meet these demands or else face the repercussions of stinging Web reviews. 

Switching to a modern point-of-sale system can revolutionize the way you do business, but it’s no easy decision to make. To help you out, here are five features a great modern POS system should offer that will catapult your business into the new age of retail: 

1. Ease of Use and Service

Just because the changing face of retail makes running your business more complicated doesn't mean the solution can’t be simple. A modern POS system should be as simple as plug-in, create an account, and go. Look for: an intuitive interface and helpful customer service. Part of the reason you’re switching is for better time management; you shouldn’t have to spend hours relearning a new system and teaching your employees. From installation to SKU integration, choose a POS provider who will be there every step of the way, via email, phone, or even Skype.

2. Tablet- and Cloud-Based POS

First off, having customer’s checkout on a cool, new iPad is a surefire step above your antique gray cash register. But more than being “cool”, a tablet-based POS allows you to check customers out anywhere in the store, conduct sales on the road, and access inventory reports virtually anywhere. Storing your data in the cloud keeps your data safely tucked away from hackers, and easily accessible from any of your multiple stores. 

3. Comprehensive Inventory Management

When catering to demanding customer preferences, the last thing you should have to do is manually tabulate inventory changes. On your cloud-based tablet POS, you should be able to check stock reports in real-time, receive instant notifications when you’re running low, and even place orders to suppliers all from the ease of your automated tablet-based system. An effective POS provider also integrates with your existing SKU systems to prevent re-scanning all of your items.

4. Rich CRM Options and Data Reporting

Currently, the customer-relationship capabilities of your legacy POS are limited to a small “Thank You!” printed on the receipt likely thrown away within 5 minutes. Many new POS systems help generate customer information right at the point of sale. An effective POS system will come fully decked out with a Loyalty Program built right in. From your tablet, you would be able to email create/edit customer profiles, redeem loyalty points, and keep in contact with your customers. All of this data should be readily accessible in rich data reports, easily exported to Excel spreadsheets, and, ultimately, make running your business simpler. 

5. Multichannel commerce

Your customers want it all, so why not give it to them? Today, an in-store experience is only part of the picture. With the rise of e-Commerce, what about your online and mobile presence? An effective POS provider should aggregate your product and service listings on the cloud, and make it accessible on the Web, on the go, and in-store. In the facing of ever-demanding customer needs, you don’t have to overcomplicate things — choose the right POS that will go where you go and grow as you grow.