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Healthcare · Private hospitals & day surgeries

Hospital Administration Automation

For private hospitals and day surgeries, every additional patient means additional admin: referral intake, PAS entry, theatre coordination, program submissions, claims. We automate the manual handling so volume can grow without the back office growing with it.

Built for the actual Monday morning

It’s 7:40am. Three referrals came in overnight as PDFs. Each one needs to be read, the patient details typed into the PAS, and the document forwarded to the treating doctor’s rooms. The theatre list changed at 6:55, so the confirmation calls need redoing. A health fund query about last week’s claims is sitting unanswered, and the monthly program submission is due Friday, which means someone spends Thursday exporting, reformatting and cross-checking.

None of these tasks is difficult. That’s exactly the problem: they’re routine, high-volume and unforgiving of error, and they land on the same few administrative staff every single day. When patient volume rises (a new surgeon, a new program, a busy quarter), the admin rises with it, and the only lever most hospitals have is hiring.

Automation changes the lever. The referral is read and entered before anyone sits down. The list change triggers the messages. The claim mismatch is flagged the day it happens, not when the fund writes back. Your team starts the day with the exceptions, the three things that genuinely need human judgement, instead of the forty things that don’t.

How the engagement works

Hospital environments are unforgiving of disruption, so we work in deliberate stages: a workflow audit first, then a pilot on one contained workflow, then expansion at your pace. Everything is built against your existing systems (we don’t ask you to replace your PAS), and staff are trained before anything goes live. The four-step process below shows the shape of a typical engagement.

What we automate for hospitals and day surgeries

Referral intake to PAS

Incoming referral documents read and extracted automatically, patient records created or updated in the PAS, and the referral routed to the treating doctor’s rooms for acceptance.

Booking & theatre list coordination

Confirmations, changes and pre-admission communications triggered by list events, not by someone working through a call sheet.

Program & registry submissions

Data for programs like Surgery Connect assembled from your systems and prepared for submission, with outcomes written back.

Health fund claims

Eligibility verification, claim submission and tracking, and flagging of mismatches before they become rejections.

Credential expiry tracking

Accreditation, insurance and registration expiries for visiting practitioners tracked and chased automatically.

Discharge & billing handoffs

Discharge events triggering the downstream paperwork (coding queues, invoices, follow-up communications) without manual relays.

How it works

A clear path from first call to running automation

  1. Step 1

    Discovery

    A free 15-minute call to understand your most significant pain points and goals.

  2. Step 2

    Audit & strategy

    We map your workflows and build a custom automation roadmap with a clear return on investment.

  3. Step 3

    Implementation

    We build, test and deploy your solution with minimal disruption to daily operations.

  4. Step 4

    Optimise & scale

    Ongoing optimisation and support as your organisation and its workflows evolve.

Hospital automation FAQs

We participate in Surgery Connect. Can you automate the referral workflow?
Yes. This is a workflow we know well. Referral PDFs can be read and entered into your PAS automatically, forwarded to the treating doctor’s rooms, and tracked through to SCAN submission. We’ve published a detailed breakdown of the Surgery Connect admin pathway.
Our PAS is old and has no API. Is automation still possible?
Usually, yes. Many hospital systems expose HL7 interfaces, reporting databases or file-based imports even when they lack modern APIs. Where none of those exist, we automate the workflow around the system so data is only entered once. We’ll give you a straight answer on feasibility after seeing your stack.
How quickly does a hospital engagement show results?
The first automated workflow, typically referral intake or a reporting task, is usually live within weeks of the audit. We deliberately start with a contained, high-volume workflow so the time savings are visible early.

Start with the workflow your intake team dreads

Book a free 15-minute discovery call. Tell us about your referral, claims or reporting load, and we'll tell you what's automatable and what it would take.

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