Content Management: Children's Hospital Boston Selects ImageNow To Help Automate Accounts Payable Processes
Children's Hospital Boston has selected ImageNow enterprise document management, imaging and workflow from Perceptive Software to assist in reducing manual efforts in invoice processing while increasing the department's level of accuracy.
Utilizing ImageNow as its primary data entry, searching and reporting solution, Children's Hospital Boston will eliminate the traditional back-office data entry process by automating the capture of relevant information for both purchase order and non-purchase order invoices. After capturing the required information, ImageNow provides instant access to invoice details in a modifiable version that accompanies the invoice through a simple workflow process. During the workflow process, Children's Hospital Boston will utilize ImageNow to incorporate electronic data interchange (EDI) transactions as well as check data when necessary.
The goal of replacing a paper-based process with automated workflow is to improve document tracking and visibility and eliminate the delays and costs associated with duplicating and distributing hard copies of approximately 100,000 purchase order invoices and approximately 55,000 non-purchase order invoices, many of which are two pages in length.
"We aim to improve customer service with the integration of ImageNow and PeopleSoft, as well as take a leap forward in improving our internal processes and transparency as regards compliance and audit initiatives," said David Kirshner, Chief Financial Officer at Children's Hospital Boston.
About Children's Hospital Boston
Children's Hospital Boston is home to the world's largest research enterprise based at a pediatric medical center, where its discoveries have benefited both children and adults since 1869. More than 500 scientists, including eight members of the National Academy of Sciences, 11 members of the Institute of Medicine and 10 members of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute comprise Children's research community. Founded as a 20-bed hospital for children, Children's Hospital Boston today is a 377-bed comprehensive center for pediatric and adolescent health care grounded in the values of excellence in patient care and sensitivity to the complex needs and diversity of children and families. Children's also is the primary pediatric teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School. For more information about the hospital visit: www.childrenshospital.org/newsroom.
About Perceptive Software
Since 1995 Perceptive Software, Inc., has built enterprise content management software, including document management, document imaging and workflow solutions, to help organizations efficiently capture and organize virtually any document, then easily retrieve a precise page at the moment it's needed. More than 1,700 organizations in 22 countries rely on the ImageNow product suite to simplify their business processes.
SOURCE: Children's Hospital Boston