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RPA to automate part of the carer appreciation process

Rule-based algorithms are used to perform some of the administrative work in the informal care valuation process. The technique used is Robotic Process Automation (henceforth RPA)

Last change on 17th of September 2025, at 13:02 (CET) | Publication Standard 1.0
Publication category
Other algorithms
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Status
In use

General information

Theme

Health and Healthcare

Begin date

1-10-24

Contact information

algoritme@bronckhorst.nl

Responsible use

Goal and impact

The purpose of the algorithm is to automate repetitive administrative work performed by employees of Bronckhorst municipality. The deployment of RPA reduces the workload and gives employees more time for other tasks. Residents and businesses are only indirectly affected by the algorithm. RPA ensures that residents and businesses get answers faster. The RPA software runs on an on-premises environment within its own ICT environment and the data of residents and businesses are processed fully encrypted, which ensures privacy.

Considerations

RPA helps us provide timely feedback to residents and businesses. By deploying RPA on repetitive work, less external staff need to be hired, saving (social) costs and increasing our public value.

Human intervention

For each RPA process, there is a process manager. The process manager monitors the robot. When information in the RPA process is incomplete, the respective process fails and has to be processed manually.

Risk management

There are no additional risks compared to manual processes. The risks of errors are reduced in many cases. The process managers do monthly spot checks on the processes performed by RPA. We document these spot checks.

Legal basis

Public interest task (AVG Article 6(1)(e))

WMO 2015

Operations

Data

RPA is deployed on the informal care valuation process. The data and applications used are captured in a process description by the process manager. Based on this information, the algorithm is built.

Technical design

Functional: The resident can apply for the informal care appreciation through a web form via our website. The software robot checks whether the form meets the conditions. A case is then created in the case system and the robot takes the basic data from the form. This saves manual work. The case is then placed in the name of an employee who handles the processing.

Technical: We apply RPA this is a software robot that is programmed based on rules. After programming, the RPA robot carries out its work, namely the process to be carried out, so it does this based on predefined rules. If something is wrong in the process, the robot fails and there is human intervention and the process has to be processed manually. No AI is used in the algorithm.

External provider

UiPath

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