ERP Assimilation in Public Healthcare Sector: A Flexible and Efficient Approach

One real challenge that still remains in healthcare domain is patient behaviour to both healthcare professionals and patients. Thus, it is important, even more crucial, to consider advanced technologies. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications are gaining increasing attention over the last years since they integrate various functions across an organization into a single information system. Nevertheless, this transition remains relatively slow in healthcare domain, particularly in the public sector. In this paper, we explain this issue and introduce the promising adoption of ERP systems in healthcare domain by highlighting the importance of using SOA and SAAS concepts when building ERP systems for gaining flexibility. After that, we model a simplified version of an ERP system by making use of Coloured Petri Net formalism and simulate it by exploring CPN Tools software in order to gain efficiency. Different properties can be verified.