Utilizing SaaS ERPs at Advocate Aurora

Amy Olson, VP for ERP & Corporate Applications, Health Informatics and Technology, Advocate Aurora Health System, and Lydon Neumann, VP, Impact Advisors.  A new generation of cloud-based (SaaS) healthcare Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are emerging as strong transformation tools for healthcare organizations.  Healthcare providers continue to face margin pressures, talent leakage, M&A disruptions and a need for more rapid IT modernization.  Amy and Lydon cover healthcare ERP market developments and how Advocate Aurora Health, as a newly merged organization, is looking to invest in strategies that create greater value.  Their deployment of this new SaaS-delivered ERP platform will deliver major benefits beyond their existing ERP legacy systems; some examples of these higher performance value propositions include driving transformation in a newly merged organization (enable self-service, standardization, big picture reporting); connecting employees, capabilities and the enterprise (eliminate silos, deliver mobility); capturing and integrating information across the enterprise (aggregate data for valuable analysis); and keeping pace with technology innovation (simpler, faster, cloud-based).