FMIS Alliance Implementation Project

Finance and Materials Management Systems (FMIS) comprises of applications that support core health agency financial management, including general ledger, assets and materials management.

The FMIS systems will modernise and standardise business processes and reporting associated with finance and materials management. FMIS will provide health agencies with robust and capable, industry standard tools that will appropriately support the management of complex health agency settings.

The core functionality of FMIS includes:

• General ledger
• Budgeting
• Accounts payable
• Accounts receivable
• Trust accounting
• Assets management
• Equipment hire
• Materials management
• iProcurement
• Cash receipting
• On-line invoice submission
• BAS statement for GST reporting
• iExpenses.

Each health agency is implemented based upon standard common application configurations as defined in the common solution footprint. This approach reflects the philosophy of standard systems and business processes where possible.

Benefits of FMIS

• Additional control over expenditure - enforce financial delegations
• Substantial cleanup of supplier data
• Online procurement - timely, increased control
• Move to EFT payment & cheque printing
• Flexibility of reporting
• Stock management
• Workflow support & controls.

HealthSMART’s FMIS solution the Oracle eBusiness suite was originally implemented in acute metropolitan health agencies and Bendigo Health. However, the project’s success led rural health alliances to request it be implemented at all five Victorian rural health alliances:

• Gippsland Health Alliance
• Grampians Rural Health Alliance
• Hume Health Alliance
• Loddon-Mallee Rural Health Alliance
• South West Alliance of Rural Health (SWARH)

The FMIS Alliance Implementation Project team has overseen the successful implementation of the Oracle eBusiness suite at the Gippsland Health Alliance in December 2008 and the Loddon-Mallee Rural Health Alliance in October 2009 . The Project team is now working closely with Hume Health Alliance as the next agency scheduled to go-live in November 2009.