Patient costing system, CostPro, saves time and eases pressure at Barwon Health.
HIGHLIGHTS
Improves visibility of the costing data to decision makers
The application proves to be easier to use
Overnight loads result in regular costing and easily identifiable issues
Barwon Health benefits from the ongoing support of CBS - Health Costing Experts
“The ability to automate our data loads each night has simplified my job.
I spend significantly less time collating, cleaning and loading data which allows me to focus more on the actual cost allocation. It also has the advantage of being able to pick up on data issues in a timely manner which makes it easier to fix the problems in the source system.
Moving to CostPro has given me the opportunity to work closely with the staff at CBS and leverage off the experience they have working with other hospitals.
As a Costing Analyst, we can get quite focused on dealing with our own ‘special’ problems. It turns out that our problems are usually not that special and CBS has already found a way to handle them.
The continuous improvement of CostPro and the responsiveness to requests to CBS has also been a highlight.”
Kelvin Heard, Clinical Costing Analyst - Barwon Health
INITIATIVE
Barwon Health sought a system to improve the visibility of their costing data to the decision makers and finance department and enable regular costing to ease the pressure and stress of end-of-year deadlines and submissions.
CBS - Health Costing Experts offered a proof of concept of CostPro, our patient costing system, already implemented in Queensland statewide and many other health organisations in Australia, New Zealand and the United Arab Emirates.
OUTCOME
Barwon Health immediately noticed CostPro’s functionality to allow users to view reports easily and with the detail that they required. The user-interface was also considerably easier to use.
What was once a very manual process for Barwon Health, CostPro automates just about everything allowing their Costing Analyst to spend more time doing their job rather than loading data.
With regular data feeds, the organisation is now costing more frequently. This identifies source data issues quicker and there are fewer issues now that the quality of the data is a lot better. It’s now easier for clerical administrators to resolve data issues soon after the event than it is to go back and fix issues in the year prior.
CostPro puts transparent patient costing information at your fingertips.
It is the complete solution to understanding patient costs and activity in a hospital.
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