Groups is a way to virtually connect multiple facilities running AMSHub. Whether they’re next door, across town, or across the country from each other, any facilities running AMSHub can use Groups to connect and share numerous features and data points between them.
Enabling Groups
If you have multiple facilities using AMSHub, odds are someone from our implementation team has asked you if your facilities should be connected as a Group. If not, reach out to us and let us know which facilities should be connected. As a free service, someone from our team will make the changes in AMSHub enabling this feature for your facilities.
Group Manager
If you are a group manager for your facilities, you will select the Group View when you log in. This dashboard includes expanded data about your facilities including comprehensive Procedure and Provider summaries across your group. You can also update Group settings from this view as well.
Things You Can Do With Groups
One of the unique things about Groups is that it adds numerous features and benefits throughout the AMSHub platform. New pages may appear, or new buttons or links may appear, all to provide you with added capabilities to better manage multiple facilities in your newly created group.
Let’s take a closer look at some of the things you can do with multiple facilities running AMSHub connected in a Group:
- Group Dashboard: The group dashboard is a great place to see your groups performance, looking specifically at comprehensive Procedure, Provider, Profitability and Inventory summaries across your group.
- Group-Level Price Syncing: Group Administrators can enable price syncing at the group level. When enabled this will ensure prices are consistent across all facilities in your group automatically.
- Resource Bundle Sharing: If your facility is part of a group, you can use the sharing feature to deploy resources across your network.
- Check Inventory at Other Locations: You can easily check inventory levels for an item at your other locations. When viewing an Inventory item’s details, you’ll see a red boxes icon next to your On Hand quantity. Click this icon to open a window that will provide on-hand levels for this item at your other locations. This can be helpful when doing Inter-facility Inventory Transfers.
- Inter-facility Inventory Transfer: Being part of a group gives you the ability to do an internal inventory transfer to move items from one location to another, within AMSHub, in the event you need to shuffle physical inventory between locations.
- Multi-facility Users: One of the many benefits of being part of a group is the ability to give users access to multiple facilities using a single login. Tech Admins and Facility Admins have the ability to add new AMSHub Users, by picking existing users from other locations within your group. Learn more about creating new users and giving existing users access to other locations, here.
- Add a New Facility to your Group: Using our Add Another Facility feature lets you configure services for your new facility by copying the existing services from another location, making it easier than ever to ensure consistency across your group and accelerating the setup process even further. This time-saving feature provides our most powerful data sharing tools all in one place, making it easier than ever to get your new facilities up and running in AMSHub.
- Patient Education Document Sharing: If your facility is part of a group, you can share Patient Education documents with other facilities in your group. This can save a tremendous amount of time and create consistency across all of your locations.
- Survey Template Sharing: You can also share survey templates with other locations within your group. This is another time saver and will create consistency amongst your group.
- Providers Sharing: Being part of a group allows you to share providers with other facilities in your group creating consistency among your different locations.
- Personnel Sharing: Sharing personnel with other facilities in your group will create consistency among your different locations and will save time.
- Procedure Types Sharing: If your facility is part of a group, you can share procedures with other facilities in your group creating consistency among your different locations.
- Group Analytics: The different group reports give you an at a glance look at information for your group as well as each individual facility. The same reports are part of the traditional reports/analytics, but looking at these reports from the group side allows you to see all of the facility and group information without having to go between facilities. More about Group Providers Report, Group Procedures Report, Group Deleted Items Report, Group Inventory Page
- Copy Inventory Types and Attributes: Being a part of a group allows you to copy item types, prices, par levels and consignment status from one facility to another with just a few clicks.
- PO Numbers for Groups: If your group is using automatic PO numbers, you can create custom prefixes for each facility to make it easier to look at PO numbers and identify which facility the order is for.
- Group Financials: This page provides an at a glance look at the profit, revenue and expense information for all of the facilities that are part of your group.
- Group Payments: Your group can manage your payment type in one place using our group auto-payment feature. You can now add multiple payment types at the group level and attach different facilities to each option.