Optimize healthcare workflow management with automation

For health care providers, compliance, accuracy, and accountability are critical. Automated workflow processes provide better internal controls and greatly improved efficiency Reduce risk, increase compliance, improve productivity, and gain a competitive advantage by reducing work cycles and overhead.

Some of the ways Nutrient Workflow Automation can help healthcare organizations include the ability to:

• Centralize and simplify business operations

• Manage capital and operational expenditure processes

• Provide a single portal for all employee requests and self-service

• Standardize the employee onboarding process

• Ensure a compliant vendor approval process

• Streamline incident reporting

• Handle incident management

• Reduce new product cycles

• Improve internal audit controls

Use case examples

The following sections highlight real-world applications of Nutrient Workflow Automation across various healthcare processes. From managing capital expenditure requests to ensuring cybersecurity incident reporting, these use cases demonstrate how automated workflows enhance accuracy, compliance, and operational efficiency. Explore how healthcare organizations can reduce risks, improve responsiveness, and provide better service across key operational areas.

Capital and operational expenditure requests

With the volume of capital expenditure requests being submitted, there’s significant risk of mistakes, delays, compliance, and visibility. Given the investment, the cost of these risks can be enormous. By deploying a compliant and consistent workflow for handling capital expenditure requests, healthcare companies can greatly reduce risk while getting a faster return on capital spending.

Vendor qualification

Healthcare companies are ultimately responsible for ensuring processes are in place for the proper qualification of outside vendors and contractors. When assessing vendors for onsite work or selecting equipment and drug suppliers, workflow management should be incorporated to provide accountability and consistency and mitigate the risk of inconsistent vendor approval processes. By using a workflow management system, vendors can be consistently screened and properly approved to work with the company. In addition, a separate workflow process can handle contract initiation, where a new relationship or project contract can be routed throughout various levels of hierarchy for review and approval.

Employee requests

Nutrient Workflow gives your employees a personalized online portal they can use to submit requests for anything. Customers often use this for HR and IT requests, including payroll adjustments, vacations, status changes, access/security requests, general information requests, and much more. In addition, finance departments can set up requests for checks, wire transfers, and equipment purchase or replacement. Additionally marketing departments sometimes use the system to initiate marketing material requests and ad reviews.

Hospital facilities management

A building maintenance and facilities team gets tasked with everything from managing building security access to fixing HVAC issues. Handle these myriad requests in a centralized, consistent manner, instead of relying on emails, phone calls, or hallway conversations. Allow staff to track the progress of facilities maintenance requests in an intuitive portal environment.

Cyber security incident reporting

Having a centralized incident reporting system accessible to consistently log incidents and route them to experts for threat assessment is critical in the healthcare space. Ensure a rapid, more coordinated response to security incidents and make sure the proper information is captured at the outset and the proper protocols are followed.

New product evaluation

As new products and equipment are suggested by vendors, they can be evaluated via standard workflows instead of meetings that tie up expensive clinical personnel and prevent an efficient review process. Route relevant product information to the most relevant evaluators in IT, clinical, engineering, etc. so the best decision can be made quickly.

More examples

In addition to the core use cases, Nutrient Workflow Automation supports a variety of specialized processes across multiple departments. From health information management to IT operations, these examples demonstrate how automation can improve accuracy, ensure compliance, and streamline day-to-day workflows. Explore how different teams within healthcare organizations can leverage automation to enhance efficiency and reduce manual workloads.

Health information management (HIM)

• Forms requests and approval

• Medical chart requests

• Audit management

• Pharmacy recall notices

• Pharmacy drug tracing

Finance

• Purchase requisition

• Capital expense requests

• Contract management

• New product evaluation

• Central supply requests

• Item exception requests

• New product evaluation

• Report requests

Risk and quality

• Incident reporting

• Policy and procedure management

• Medication reconciliation

• Credentialing

Human resources

• Onboarding

• Employee change of status

• HR inquiry

• Offboarding

• Payroll adjustment

Information technology

• Access requests

• Project requests

• Work orders

• Office moves

• Security incident reporting

Some of our pharma and healthcare customers

Conclusion

Automating healthcare workflows is no longer a luxury — it’s a necessity for organizations looking to maintain compliance, improve efficiency, and reduce operational risks. With Nutrient Workflow Automation, healthcare providers can streamline critical processes, ensure accuracy, and stay ahead in an ever-evolving industry.

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