The supply chain integration process in healthcare sector has got unique challenges which shall require world class quality data in the individual organizational material management system. Hence Catalog content management is an absolutely key area to the success of eProcurement, spend analysis and inventory management initiatives. Grihasoft has a niche in health care catalogue content management services. Grihasoft works with eProcurement/EAM implementation companies, suppliers, manufacturers and supply chain integrators globally.

Grihasoft offers data classification, data cleansing and data enrichment services in health care domain to clients across different geographical verticals with strong niche in Healthcare content sector. Its unique scalable process is designed to leverage the optimal mix of content knowledge and domain expertise in order to deliver low cost high quality content.

With its strong project management skills and domain knowledge focus, Grihasoft continues to help in making their customers' healthcare data initiatives successful.

Health services portfolio:

1. Data Audit
2. Data services(Classification, Cleansing & Enrichment)

1. Data audit:

Regular diagnosis of data quality is an imperative exercise in the clinical supply chain context. The discrepancies/errors in the quality of the data have huge impact on the supply chain cost in terms of excess inventory, duplication of efforts.

Grihasoft has got pioneering expertise in diagnosing the health of data & providing the roadmap for improving the overall data quality. Data audit requires experienced well versed domain expertise in digging out hidden issues in the data which Grihasoft has in it's skill repository.

The data audit shall evaluate completeness of data-Quantitative data analysis i.e. data fill rates, Duplicate item issues, inconsistencies in UOM, Conversion factor & Cost. Secondly data audit shall also evaluate Qualitative judgment of data like extent of consistencies in description, Part number formatting, different item numbers to same part numbers etc.

Benefits of Data audit:

• Complete data quality diagnosis.
• Comprehensive Qualitative & quantitative information of issues concerning about data quality.
• Provides the road map for data improvement process.

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2. Data Services(Classification, Cleansing & Enrichment)

• Data classification:

Data classification is an indispensable exercise for effective spend analysis there by enabling greater control & visibility over the organisation purchases. Identifying Noun, modifiers & assigning most appropriate coding is the inbuilt strength which Grihasoft has developed in health care data classification process over period of six years.

Most appropriate hierarchical classification allows organisation supply chain function to understand spend properly & take actions for optimization & control.

Classification & coding can be done to either global schema like HCPCS, UNSPSC, eClass, or to custom build proprietary schemas.

• Data Cleansing:

The efficiency of purchase process would directly improve to the extent of clean, complete & accurate data the organisation/hospital is possessing. The process of data cleansing would improve the data description by:

• Attribute extraction & population.
• Abbreviation expansion.
• Manufacturer & Vendor normalisation.
• Duplicates parts identification.
• Data normalisation & rationalisation.

• Data enrichment:

At times the cleansed description developed by attribute expansion, data normalization from the raw input description may not completely compliment towards improving the data quality & purchasing efficiency. In those circumstances it’s ideal to process the data through enrichment process.

The data processed through enrichment process shall be comprehensive enough to build complete Long description, Proper sequencing of complete description & build customized short description (after abbreviating the attributes in pre-determined standard manner) for ERP/SAP related & CIMS related applications.

The enrichment process involve extracting additional information about the given product through following process:

1. Web scraping for the production information in the respective vendor, Manufacturer or third part vendor sites.
2. Vendor catalogs, Manufacturer catalogues.
3. Browsing through additional data about the product from the clients other documents like Legacy data, PO history, transactional data etc.
4. Physical walk down at client location.

Benefits of Content Services:

• Elimination of duplicates in the client item master.
• Easy and accurate identification of materials.
• Complete Rationalisation & normalisation of data.
• Appropriate sourcing information.
• The solid long description can be parsed & mapped into any customised templates or pre-defined attribute.
• Ready to use short description for SAP, ERP or any Material management system implementation initiative programmes.

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