Resource Management Systems

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  Financial & Materials Management Systems
  
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  Human Resource Management Systems
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Finance and Materials Information Management Systems

Finance and Materials Information Management Systems (FMIS) comprises applications that support core health agency financial and supply management.

The core functionality of FMIS includes:

• General ledger
• Budgeting
• Accounts payable
• Accounts receivable
• Trust accounting
• Assets management
• Equipment hire
• Materials management
• iProcurement
• Cash receipting
• On-line invoice submission
• BAS statement for GST reporting
• iExpenses.

HealthSMART’s FMIS solution is provided by the Oracle eBusiness suite. 6,000 staff across the health sector are currently utilising the system.

Oracle is live at:

• Eastern Health
• Peninsula Health
• Bendigo Health
• Southern Health
• Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute
• Northern Health
• Western Health
• Melbourne Health

Key Benefits

• Administrative efficiency improved as staff can now manage purchase requisitions online rather than having to rely on paper forms.
• Better managed supplies (for example bandages and disposable surgical instruments) ensures patient procedures are not delayed because of missing equipment.

While the Oracle project was wound up in April 2008, the project’s success led rural health alliances to request it be implemented at the five rural health alliances. The Finance and Material Management Systems Rural and Regional Project team is currently coordinating this process.