Return on Investment

Healthcare organizations adopting LinkingHealthProfessionals are able to provide a more efficient and effective means of collecting and disseminating information. Decision-makers gain access to accurate and relevant information that can be used to help formulate plans and make decisions at all levels of the organization.

LinkingHealthProfessionals provides cost effective solutions to save time and recources,reduce significantly the workload of your administrative staff and increase the efficiency for those trained in healthcare in three major ways:

The Modules

Our comprehensible modules have proved to reduce costs and benefit organizations in the following areas:

• Reduction of FTE tasks and resources

  Each module is designed to reduce the manual workload of FTE administrative staff thereby allowing them to concentrate more on significant tasks and less on redundant activities. Staff will spend less time chasing down outstanding paperwork and scheduling tasks and more time on constructive administrative tasks.
  
  

• Simplification

  LinkingHealthProfessionals modules simplify processes which traditionally require an abundance of manual intervention. By automating such processes, all parties involved are presented with a streamlined, intuitive application. A user-friendly wizard provides users with a straight-forward method of entering required data and leaves little room for error, thus reducing the amount of time and manpower it takes to complete a process.
  
  

• Timeliness

  Where traditional paper-based processes involve a large amount of time spent gathering and disseminating information and shuffling paperwork from one person to another, an online process significantly reduces the time required for completion. Introducing a self-serve component transfers the burden of submitting required forms and documents to the user and as a result submission deadlines are more readily met. An automated process provides the organization with real-time information and as such can assist them in making key decisions using reliable data.
  
  


• Compliance

  Throughout our years of experience in developing automated processes for healthcare education, we have found that overall compliance to complete tasks significantly increases when one is presented with an online option. For example, by providing the user with email notifications and reminders for the Clinical Evaluation process, the number of evaluations completed by students/preceptors has risen to almost 100%.
  
  

• Accuracy

  Each module provides a self-serve component where members enter their own profile, professional and employment information, evaluations, etc., thereby reducing the amount of inaccurate and missing data. By shifting the onus of data entry onto the individual user fewer errors are made thus enabling administrative staff to focus on tasks more relevant than data entry.
  
  

• Convenience

  Automated processes within LinkingHealthProfessionals are intuitive and quick to complete. Users can log into the system from anywhere, at anytime, providing the most convenient means of viewing or completing tasks required by their organization.
  
  

• Centralization

  Implementation of one or more LinkingHealthProfessionals modules provides an organization with a centralized source of information within a secure environment. This helps to reduce the amount of administrative work necessary to collect and disseminate information.

The Community

LinkingHealthProfessionals communities provide a space where healthcare facilities can disseminate information to their members, allowing them to collaborate, share and effectively communicate from anywhere, at anytime.

• Communication

  Members have the ability to log into their community anywhere, anytime. Important messages sent to them from the community administrator are readily accessible through the click of a mouse. Members can use the posting board and news to exchange links and articles of interest, the repository for accessing important files and the discussion forum, private messaging and wiki for communicating between members within and outside of their community.
  
  

• Access to information

  A community provides a centralized source of information to its members. In this way, the healthcare organization using communities can ensure that all of their members are accessing the same information in a timely manner.
  
  

• Knowledge transfer

  As the healthcare provider population ages, an influx of less experienced individuals will be replacing them in the workforce. As experienced staff leave, the organization can be left with an extensive knowledge gap. Creating an online community where knowledge sharing is encouraged can help to alleviate that gap and give new employees the confidence to continue providing healthcare excellence.
  
  

• Connectivity

  Creating an online community can assist those who are collaborating on projects from various locations; members across distances can be assured they are receiving the same information from project leaders. Meeting notes, presentations, audio files, images, etc. can all be posted in a repository for all to see anywhere, at anytime. Important information can be relayed efficiently without the need to gather members in one location, saving on meeting expenses.

The Members

LinkingHealthProfessionals provides healthcare members with the tools to get connected with one another, exchange ideas and collaborate. Individuals who use the system benefit in a number of ways:

• Networking

  Individuals using LinkingHealthProfessionals gain a powerful network of colleagues. The system assists members in connecting with other healthcare professionals and provides them with the means to collaborate and share information.
  
  

• Mentorship

  Using profile information, personality metrics and a powerful algortithim, LinkingHealthProfessionals assist members in finding their "best match" for mentoring and allows each member to become a mentor, enabling them to transfer knowledge to others.
  
  

• Connectivity

  Members benefit from the ability to connect with other healthcare professionals from anywhere, at anytime. All one needs is an internet connection and a LinkingHealthProfessionals account. .Members can request to join a community and then participate and obtain information through discussion forums, private messaging, repositories, events calendar and news.