Solutions
Advanced capacity planning for an uncertain world
At Gooroo @ Insource we specialise in advanced demand forecasting and capacity planning across the entire hospital or system. We have particular expertise in bed occupancy and risk, reducing waiting times, and turning planning into an automated utility that complements BI.
The traditional spreadsheet model has reached the end of the road. It’s too laborious, too error prone, and too hard to keep up to date. At a time when everything is changing so fast, you need tactical as well as strategic planning – planning that is responsive to recent events, up to date, and always ‘on tap’ for every clinical service.
Agile demand & capacity planning
- Advanced, current demand forecasts
- Flexible models for elective recovery
- Versatile tactical and strategic planning
- Safe, clinically accepted methods
- Every service, every site, every week
- Automated for ease, accuracy and reliability
Advanced, current demand forecasts
Next year, thankfully, will not be like last year. Yet that is the assumption built into every spreadsheet planning model. Modern capacity planning must be responsive to recent events. So, we worked with a Professor of Statistics to find the best forecasting techniques. Now they’re all built in. And you don’t have to be a statistician to use them.
Flexible models for elective recovery
Planning got complicated under Covid. The constraints we face now are not the ones we’ll face next year, or the year after. How can you plan that in a rigid spreadsheet? Instead, you need a flexible, powerful planning model that’s more than equal to the task. So, when the question changes, your plans change too.
Versatile tactical and strategic planning
Annual planning is all very well for budget setting. But what about operational management? You need to respond quickly when things happen – that’s tactical planning, for the coming weeks. You also need to plan your core capacity – that’s strategic planning for the coming months and years.
Safe, clinically accepted methods
What will the consultants think? Don’t worry. We’ve been through our methods with the Royal Colleges, as well as hundreds of consultants up and down the country. They’ve been checked by statisticians and run past the regulators. They’ve been challenged by commissioners and scrutinised by finance directors. And they’re still standing.
Versatile tactical and strategic planning
Annual planning is all very well for budget setting. But what about operational management? You need to respond quickly when things happen – that’s tactical planning, for the coming weeks. You also need to plan your core capacity – that’s strategic planning for the coming months and years.
Safe, clinically accepted methods
What will the consultants think? Don’t worry. We’ve been through our methods with the Royal Colleges, as well as hundreds of consultants up and down the country. They’ve been checked by statisticians and run past the regulators. They’ve been challenged by commissioners and scrutinised by finance directors. And they’re still standing.
Every service, every site, every week
Clinical services don’t work in silos. They share capacity, and sometimes compete for it. Your planning shouldn’t work in silos either. You need to model every service and know when urgent demand is likely to elbow other activity aside. And with automated, accurate data as your foundation, from our core data engine, you can do just that.
Automated for ease, accuracy, and reliability
If you’ve ever done planning in a spreadsheet, you’ll know how much work it can be, and how easily the errors creep in. What if you could do it all reliably at the click of a mouse? Even better, how about no clicks? Gooroo Planner is ready for automation. With our automated data feeds, it literally runs itself, so you don’t have to.
Elective care solutions suite
Our comprehensive suite of elective care solutions encompasses waiting list management, data validation services, capacity planning, analytics, and eLearning solutions. This integrated portfolio is underpinned by our powerful Patient Pathway Plus core data engine which provides the unified data foundation to ensure a fast and targeted elective recovery
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