SCA provides oversight to assist facilities with MMIS implementation by focusing on activities supporting Materials Management, Inventory Control, Supply Patient Charging, Purchasing and Contract Administration, Point-of-Use Systems, and Electronic Commerce / Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)/Trading Partner Development.
SCA will provide such supplemental support to the Materials Management department prior to, during, and immediately after the implementation. Acting as an advocate to ensure the client can fully exploit the full functionality of the new system, SCA consultants will:
SCA will provide such supplemental support to the Materials Management department prior to, during, and immediately after the implementation. Acting as an advocate to ensure the client can fully exploit the full functionality of the new system, SCA consultants will:
- Assist in developing the position of MMIS System Administrator,
- Help train/orient the MMIS System Administrator relative to the best use of the system, development of system-specific policies and procedures, and the development of new user/department training materials,
- Help identify the functional interface requirements between the MMIS and the Cath Lab and OR systems,
- Help develop client-specific training scenarios for Materials Management that will address the anticipated/enhanced utilization of the system at the client vs. the more generic vendor-provided training,
- Participate in MMIS acceptance testing as a Materials Management advocate to ensure all proposed functionality is installed and fully operational,
- Help identify/resolve departmental operational issues that become apparent concurrent with, and subsequent to, the implementation of the system,
- Help develop/implement both regular as well as ad hoc supply cost profiling reports on a hospital-wide and departmental-specific basis,
- Help perform a post-implementation “benefits realization” assessment after 3 months of steady-state operation to ensure the client has maximized the full functionality of the new system and is effectively using it in support of enhanced supply chain management, and
- Help address/resolve any operational issues identified during the post-implementation assessment.