Embracing open source technologies
The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London, Acute
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The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London, Acute
The Royal Marsden Finance team needs to cost-effectively meet the specific operational needs of a Wholly Owned Subsidiary (WOS) pharmacy through implementation of an automatic digital finance and reporting system. Because otherwise extra staff are required to manage the additional administration – attracting people costs, creating data delays and risking error, and whilst bringing additional licence costs, the traditional proprietary approach might not provide sufficient flexibility to react to the developing WOS or give options for integration with required systems.
The ‘tangible’ outputs that came from our innovation were:
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Read now“The use of open Source Software allows flexibility and the use of apps, whilst remaining a very cost effective ERP solution. this example should encourage other organisations to consider open source software options.”
“Bespoke build – giving the organisation exactly what they want instead of a “make do” traditional product With it being a bespoke built – the adaptability has the potential to be limitless Cost Savings but tangible from the system cost perspective and then intangible re time savings which can be reinvested into other value adding aspects of the organisation.”
“This development most definitely deserves recognition. The organisation thought outside of the box and delivered savings both tangible and intangible and also improved the quality of its outputs whilst doing so.”
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