Reducing Health Care Costs with Better Project Management Software

Health care costs can be radically reduced by using project management software.

The central mission of a health care organization is to deliver medical or health related services to a patient population. Non-medical projects and administrative processes compete with health care delivery for scare resources in a hospital’s budget. Many of these projects and processes are necessary. Medical records need to be kept. Supplies must be tracked and operating rooms stocked. Medical devices and software must be monitored and maintained.

On the personnel side, medical staff must be managed, meetings scheduled, problems resolved. And the list could continue.

These are projects and processes that can be done more efficiently. One area that gets a lot of media attention is medical records management. Improving records management, for example, frees up money that can be directed to patient care or to lowering the overall cost of providing medical care.

Another area ripe for improvement is the overall management of projects. Applying fundamental project management concepts along with an effective project management software solution can make a huge difference in a hospital’s budget.

For example, Patients’ Hospital in Redding, California recently reported a 50% reduction in the time it takes to deliver projects. They attribute this to the use of the right enterprise project management software (they use Vertabase Pro).

In the words of Demetra Neely, Medical Staff Coordinator, “thanks to Vertabase Pro, projects are being delivered in about half that time. This increase in management efficiency enables us to focus an even higher percentage of available resources to our central mission of providing the best patient care possible.”

Improving project management is a relatively simple and low-cost solution to reducing the cost of health care.

Read more about Patients’ Hospital and the project management case study  or download the pdf of project management software for healthcare.

          

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