Shift.xlsx, annual plan.xls, resource planning Excel, mighty Excel, smart Excel... The world revolves around spreadsheets. These magical inventions are the primary planning tools in almost every organization. Why? Let’s take a closer look at where Excel works well, and the areas where it’s about time to give up using it for efficient healthcare resource management.
Ilari Laaksonen
New from author Ilari Laaksonen
2 minutes
Four excellent reasons to replace Excel in healthcare resource management
Topics: Resource management Axel Planner optimization healthcare resource planning healthcare service production
2 minutes
Benefits of patient flow management in numbers, part 3
In my previous blog posts, I wrote about the benefits of patient flow management in terms of numbers. In part 1, I focused on the benefits of self service at the front desk and in part 2 I discussed the benefits from the healthcare units' perspective.
Topics: patient flow management Self service Axel Encounter self-service solution
2 minutes
Tips and tricks for healthcare: How to avoid unnecessary interactions during pandemic
In healthcare, one of the biggest challenges has always been the organization of diagnostics and treatment of contagious diseases in hospitals and health centers. It’s effective to focus complex healthcare actions requiring a lot of professionals and equipment under one roof. At the same time, because of this way of organizing, a large number of people having an infectious disease, such as influenza or Covid-19, may be sitting in the same waiting room. In that room, one patient can expose many other people to the disease, although a health center should be a place to seek cure for illnesses, not the other way around.
Topics: patient flow management Mobile check-in digitalization in healthcare remote appointments
2 minutes
The key elements of a positive patient experience
Patient experience describes an individual’s experience of their issue, whether it is an illness or an accident, and how healthcare treats that problem. Over the past ten years, many organizations have launched and completed projects to improve the overall patient experience.
Topics: patient flow management Self service Axel Planner Axel Encounter patient experience healthcare service production digitalization in healthcare patient path
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Benefits of patient flow management in numbers, part 2
In my previous blog post, I introduced you to the benefits of self service at the front desk, where patients check in, fill out their patient history forms, and pay their invoices. This time, I’ll focus on improving the efficiency of healthcare processes by reducing idle time - and on explaining the calculations involved.
Topics: patient flow management Self service Axel Encounter lead time self-service solution
3 minutes
Benefits of patient flow management in numbers, part 1
What are the key reasons for our customers to implement Axel? The answer is divided in two - for the soft and hard benefits our solution offers. Common soft benefits include improving the patient experience, modernizing the user experience, or increasing operational transparency. Today, however, we are diving into the world of hard benefits – including numbers, spreadsheets, and euros.
