Health Authority – Abu Dhabi Lays Foundation for World-Class, Paperless, Healthcare E-Services—Increases Performance up to 80%
 
 

Health Authority – Abu Dhabi Lays Foundation for World-Class, Paperless, Healthcare E-Services—Increases Performance up to 80%

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Health Authority – Abu Dhabi (HAAD) is the regulatory body charged with ensuring excellence in community healthcare in the emirate. HAAD defines the strategic objectives of Abu Dhabi’s healthcare system and continually monitors its performance. In addition, it shapes the regulatory healthcare framework; inspects healthcare product manufacturers and service providers; enforces standards; regulates services, and premiums and reimbursements. In addition, it encourages adoption of best practices and high performance targets by all healthcare professionals and service providers in the Emirate.

HAAD needed to deploy a reliable and secure infrastructure to facilitate world-class healthcare e-services that could scale to serve millions of citizens across the emirates. It also wanted to improve customer relationship management, implement more standardized procurement policies, and roll out self-service capabilities to HAAD's employees and customers.

The health authority deployed Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1 to standardize processes and improve efficiency. It reduced customer service transaction workload by 20%, automated the requisition cycle with paperless processes, accelerated processing, on average, fivefold and cut the monthly financial closing process from 10 days to 3 days. By rolling out self-service capabilities, the organization saves 800 work-hours and 25,000 sheets of paper, annually. With the help of Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition, HAAD increased the performance of its front-office processes, driven by third-party applications that are uploaded into the data warehouse every night, by 80%, on average, and facilitated strategic decision-making through in-depth analysis capabilities.

 
 

 
 

Challenges

A word from Health Authority – Abu Dhabi (HAAD)

  • "Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle Business Intelligence improved the resiliency of our back-office processes, resulting in faster turnaround times for customer transactions. We have achieved tremendous savings in terms of manpower and costs and optimized our entire operation while improving customer satisfaction, both internally and externally." – Ali Mohamed Al Ali, IT Manager, Health Authority – Abu Dhabi (HAAD)

  • Create an infrastructure for healthcare e-services that is highly reliable and secure and can scale to serve millions of citizens across the emirates, instead of using disparate, semi-automated management information systems that are partly redundant and do not offer consolidated business reporting
  • Establish an online database for authorized suppliers instead of dealing with scattered, stand-alone databases that hamper the implementation of procurement policies
  • Provide self-service capabilities to HAAD employees, healthcare professionals, and healthcare service providers to enable online administrative transactions, cut travel required to receive authorizations in person, and reduce staff workload at customer care centers
  • Comply with the emirate’s policies for IT governance, such as data protection, data extraction, and system integration with the Ministry of Interior

Solutions

Oracle Product and Services

  • Deployed Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1 to standardize processes and leverage efficiencies, improve knowledge access and utilization, and optimize the quality of services rendered to healthcare professionals and citizens with an industry-leading, stable, and reliable enterprise resource planning (ERP) system that reduces HAAD’s cost of services
  • Automated and eliminated paper-based processes to accelerate purchase approvals from five days to 24 hours, reducing operational and filing costs
  • Introduced electronic purchase orders and automated the requisition cycle, reducing requisition cycle times from an average of 25 days to 5 days
  • Accelerated invoice processing and reduced associated costs—with nearly 50% of all invoices now received in electronic format—and enabled suppliers to follow the payment status of their invoices through an online portal
  • Accelerated the monthly financial close process from 10 days to 3 days by eliminating the need to gather data from a large number of data sources
  • Increased employee productivity by rolling out online self-services, saving 800 work-hours and 25,000 sheets of paper annually
  • Met and undercut Oracle Database performance requirements of 20 to 200 milliseconds for single transactions and ensured around-the-clock database availability that enables prompt, efficient, and consistent health services
  • Increased the performance of its front-office processes, driven by third-party applications that are uploaded into the data warehouse every night by 80%, on average, after introducing detailed performance through Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition
  • Established a unique, consolidated online database of registered suppliers, facilitating the introduction of more standardized procurement policies and enabling authorized suppliers to submit paperless proposals and tender bids via the internet
  • Improved the quality of employee performance reviews and accelerated the process by 30% with Oracle Human Resources Performance Management
  • Facilitated strategic decision-making through in-depth analysis capabilities with shorter information delivery times for monitoring qualitative characteristics (process performance from creation of the request to its completion) to improve clinical interventions and quantitative characteristics (such as variations in infectious disease incidence, screening tests given, and so on.)

Why Oracle

“We rely on Oracle technology because it provides us with process- and policy-driven workflows that enable quicker and very accurate decision-making and much faster process turnaround times,” said Ali Mohamed Al Ali, IT manager, HAAD.

Partner

Oracle partner Capgemini Consulting, Middle East & Africa, implemented Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1. Oracle partner Raqmiyat ensures the support of HAAD’s Oracle applications.
 
"We chose Oracle partner Raqmiyat, following a public tender, to benefit from the skills of a single, highly experienced service provider capable of delivering comprehensive support and extending our Oracle applications in a heterogeneous environment. Their cooperation has enabled our small team of specialized employees to fully benefit from Oracle technology, which has led to increased performance, expanded insight, and better customer service," Al Ali said.

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