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Your Guide for Healthcare Process Digitalization

Built from industry research and customer insights, this infographic supports your digital transformation journey and paper-lite initiatives. See how no code process automation replaces paper, improves back-end and patient-facing processes, improves reporting and delivers better patient experiences.

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6,000+admin hours saved per year
60%faster process deployment

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  • The impact of paper processes on hospitals
  • A week-by-week process automation timeline
  • Savings realized by FlowForma customers

What's inside the infographic

From FlowForma, a leading provider of process automation tools for healthcare: the research, the roadmap and the results.

  1. 01The impact of paper processes on hospitalsHow much still runs on paper, email and Excel, and what it costs.
  2. 02What prevents hospitals from digitalizingThe five barriers decision makers report, and how to overcome them.
  3. 03Process automation timelineFrom install in week 1 to 50+ processes in 12 months.
  4. 04Savings and use casesResults from FlowForma customers, and 12 healthcare processes to automate.
  5. 05Tips for process automation successFour steps to start and scale.
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Beaumont HospitalNHSLiverpool School of Tropical MedicineBlackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS
You have better outcomes when clinicians have access to digital data and are not running around looking for paper to treat patients. That's our driver for digitalizing processes with FlowForma Process Automation.
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Mark GrahamDirector of ICT, Beaumont Hospital

The impact of paper processes on hospitals

Paper, email and spreadsheet processes are invisible. Healthcare decision makers told us what that costs them.

64%

of healthcare decision makers say 50% to 100% of their hospital processes are managed on paper, email or Excel.

Source: FlowForma industry research

The problems paper processes cause

  • Missing data84%
  • Poor visibility80%
  • Difficulty proving compliance75%
  • Inefficiencies72%
  • Poor care collaboration65%

What prevents hospitals from digitalizing

Hospitals want to digitalize. These are the barriers holding them back, and how FlowForma customers get past them.

Barriers to digitalization

  • No resources or technical skills38%
  • Fear of change34%
  • No budget31%
  • No owner for the initiative26%
  • Not a priority21%
38%

believe a lack of resources and technical skills has prevented them from moving processes online. FlowForma customers digitalize at scale by empowering their business people with a no code tool.

62%

say their hospital is motivated to digitalize to improve patient care. FlowForma eliminates paper process administration and frees clinicians to focus on patients.

69%

of healthcare workers say their hospital wants to digitalize for faster sign-off and decisions. FlowForma prevents approval delays with notifications, reminders and seamless auditability.

Process automation timeline

Accelerated lift-off with FlowForma: designed for healthcare process owners and supported by IT.

  1. Week 1

    Deploy

    Install the FlowForma app for Microsoft 365.

  2. Week 1

    Train

    Train business users in best-practice digitalization.

  3. Week 2

    Lift off

    Accelerate with help from a FlowForma specialist.

  4. Week 2

    First process live

    Your first process goes live in 2 weeks.

  5. Week 5

    Scale

    Your second and third processes go live.

  6. Month 12

    50+ processes

    You have 50+ processes digitalized.

Savings realized by FlowForma customers

Experience rapid ROI with rapid digitalization, mobile processes and better remote working.

6,000+admin hours saved per year
$80,000+saved per significant process
50+processes digitalized a year
60%faster process deployment than with other solutions
16%reduction in carbon footprint

Fully customizable use cases

Helping you overcome common process challenges across the hospital, from the ward to the back office.

Mobile workflow
Patient record management
Finance approvals
Incident management
Spot audits
Ward equipment monitoring
IT security access
Fire safety checks
Onboarding and offboarding
Staff recognition
EDC safety
Requests for equipment

Tips for process automation success

Four steps to start strong and scale across your hospital.

  1. 01

    Start simple, with impact

    Start by digitalizing a simple process that will have a great impact.

  2. 02

    Deploy a no code tool

    Address the demand for automating healthcare processes by enabling process owners to digitalize.

  3. 03

    Use out-of-the-box templates

    Accelerate your digitalization plan with ready-made FlowForma templates.

  4. 04

    Use real-time data

    Empower your hospital with real-time, rich data for better decision making and process improvement.

Say goodbye to manual, invisible paper, email and spreadsheet processes.

Healthcare process digitalization: common questions

How much hospital work still runs on paper?

64% of healthcare decision makers say that between 50% and 100% of their hospital processes are managed on paper, email or Excel, leading to missing data, poor visibility and difficulty proving compliance.

What stops hospitals from digitalizing processes?

The most common barriers are a lack of resources or technical skills (38%), fear of change (34%), no budget (31%), no owner for the initiative (26%) and digitalization not being a priority (21%).

How quickly can a hospital digitalize its first process?

With FlowForma, the app is installed and business users are trained in week 1, the first process goes live in 2 weeks, the second and third by week 5, and customers reach 50+ processes within 12 months.

What savings do healthcare organizations see?

FlowForma customers save 6,000+ admin hours per year and over $80,000 per significant process, deploy processes 60% faster than with other solutions and reduce their carbon footprint by 16%.

Which healthcare processes can be automated?

Common use cases include mobile workflow, patient record management, finance approvals, incident management, spot audits, ward equipment monitoring, IT security access, fire safety checks, onboarding and offboarding, staff recognition, EDC safety and requests for equipment.

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