What is RPA?
Robotic Processing Automation is a cost-saving productivity tool that can mimic, emulate and automate repetitive, high-volume, labour-intensive processes including data entry, data extraction and passing data to/from different applications.
Our RPA product SST also provides linkage to legacy systems.
Why Use RPA?
Cost Savings
The healthcare industry spends a stunning £1.5bn each year on poorly performed and error prone manual tasks.
Legacy Connectivity & Digital Transfer of Care (DTOC)
According to a recent PRSB report, “poor infrastructure... prevented optimal delivery of COVID care."
AI Gateway
According to Gartner, RPA is but one emerging AI technology that is helping healthcare delivery organisations.
Proven
Results
A number of NHS Trusts have begun to incorporate RPA solutions into their overall digital plan and report significant cost and time savings:
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One NHS Trust saved ￡150K and freed up 4,400 staff hours
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Another NHS Trust saved ￡220K using RPA
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Still another NHS Trust automated 2,400 Covid Test appointments
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RPA reportedly now saves an NHS Trust￡2M yearly through automation
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RPA was used to by another to migrate 6M records
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An NHS Trust rebooked thousands of outpatient appointments with RPA
User Stories
“We recently implemented SST to provide support related to COVID-19 testing and result reporting. Staff built automated workflows to assist with merging files and test results, processing those results in our EPR, and then emailing or texting the results to patients”
Lauren Josie
Director of Information Technology at Harrington Memorial Hospital
