This page assists the health care administrator in the review and evaluation of various industry tools.
The following tools can meet a variety of needs. Many systems integrate data from existing sources as a basis for decisions. Examples of health care tools include clinical systems, point-to-point interfaces, databases, administrative systems, budgets, forecasts, financial systems, analysis, reports, evaluation, and utilization patterns.
ALLIANCE FOR DECISION SUPPORT http://www.hmsy.com/web/prodserv/006P40.htm.
Vendor: Health Management Systems. Product description: Alliance for Decision Support (for Providers) is an enterprise-wide decision support system
that provides a variety of analytical capabilities. The technology integrates clinical, administrative, and financial information from base systems
to support decision-making across the company. Focus is on five areas of health management. Clinical management supports clinical performance measurement
and utilization management. Contract management proactively manages contractual relationships and organizational operation by integrating every aspect of the contracting cycle.
Contract Profiler and Calculator utilizes GUI and wizards to assist users in entering, testing, storing, and calculating contract terms to determine expected
reimbursement during the nightly billing cycle. Cost management aggregates and provides easy access to unit costs and resource utilization data.
Financial management helps with mission-critical functions, such as budgeting, forecasting, and resource management through merger and acquisition analysis.
Demo? No.
Evaluation: This single system can meet many needs of health care administrators. It is scalable to meet the needs of any technology infrastructure.
Alliance is also provided on an outsourcing basis.
Email: "Contact Us." Phone: (888) HMS-1886.
DBASSISTANT 2.0 http://www.bhsoftware.com/products.html. Vendor: Bloodhound Software, Inc.
Product description: Database software applications that create, maintain, and clean large health care databases.
DBAssistant provides a user-friendly, cost-effective approach to assembling, cleansing, and
organizing the critical data that organizations need to improve quality and manage cost,
with an emphasis on claims management, disease management, and pharmaceutical cost management.
Demo? No.
Evaluation: By knowing patterns in patients and diseases, the users can make
intelligent decisions about procedures, patients, and claims. If patients' symptoms are identified
with common trends, specific health programs can be started to help them immediately.
Email: info@bhsoftware.com Phone: (919) 572-1784. Fax: (919) 572-1785.
HEALTH CARE MARKET ANALYSIS SYSTEM http://www.westonmedical.com/
Vendor: Weston Medical Data Systems. Product description: A powerful system for extracting
critical information hidden within health care administrative databases. As one of the leading health
care data warehouses, the vendor database includes more than 150 million patient records.
Demo? No.
Evaluation: HCMAS is regionally
recognized as the most cost effective, user-friendly, and powerful system. Recent visual and report
creating improvements designed to increase user productivity will put HCMAS further ahead of the competition.
Email:
sales@westonmedical.com Phone: (800) 561-3306.
Fax: (508) 650-0473.
IˇMaCS MANAGED CARE WORKBENCH http://www.imacs.com/. Vendor: Innovative Managed Care Systems, Inc.
Product description: This Windows based system uniquely analyzes and models patient population,
then presents the financial impact of managed care contracts. This product is
designed for detailed research and analysis, operational reporting, and contract negotiation
support. It also offers effective re-pricing of claims, flexible operational reporting, in-depth
evaluation of capitation contracts, evaluation and marketing support of any product line,
and more. It is the only full function Windows based Managed Care software that is providing results
today. It offers advanced client/server implementation operating with Windows 3.1, Windows 95,
and Windows NT. "State-of-the-art" graphical interface (GUI) is designed specifically for Managed
Care executives.
Demo? No.
Evaluation: This is a very useful tool in the health care industry because
of the wide range of financial support applications.
Email: imacs@imacs.com Phone: (972) 960-6036.
INFOMINERS http://www.infominers.com/. Vendor: InfoMiners.
Product description: Infominers consists of an atomic-level data warehouse, multi-dimensional OLAP files,
business intelligence tools, and administration tools. The data warehouse is housed in an Oracle
database. The business intelligence tools are Impromptu and PowerPlay from Cognos Corporation.
The administration tools and other components are applications created by InfoMiners using Visual
Basic.
Demo? No.
Evaluation: This is a very powerful tool used to store and sort mass quantities
of health care data in a timely manner. It allows management and employees access to current data
to adapt to consumer needs and stay ahead of the health care competition.
Email: jcooper@infominers.com Phone: (716) 929-2050.
INTEGRATED DATA WAREHOUSE http://www.csc.com/industries/healthcare/prodserv/datawarehousing.html.
Vendor: Computer Sciences Corporation. Product description: This is a scalable, technology solution that provides healthcare organizations timely access to information generated by their claims and financial management systems.
With this comprehensive data warehouse and client-server applications, IDW enables decision-makers to perform "point-and-click" analyses that focus on critical management topics, such as medical management, clinical effectiveness,
HEDIS measures, and quality of care.
Demo? No.
Evaluation: The flexible design module gives clients the ability to design their own applications. The EIS Module provides managers with timely access to relevant information.
Email: support@csc.com Phone: (800) CSC-4799.
SMS OPENLinkhttp://www.csc.com/industries/healthcare/index.html
Vendor: Shared Medical Systems. Product description: An interface management system that provides
an open platform for connecting different application systems, allowing them to easily and
effectively communicate with each other. Enables the company to interface any system to another,
using a standard protocol, to help resolve problems of multiple point-to-point interfaces among
hospital information systems.
Demo? No.
Evaluation: The flexibility and control allows the company to
determine its own rate and direction of growth in the area of information management. SMS
OPENLink also helps healthcare facilities eliminate costs related to application interfacing,
while accommodating the growth and strategic direction of an information network.
Email: general@smed.com Phone: (800) CSC-4799.
UTILIZATION EXPO http://www.caresage.com/prod03.htm
Vendor: CareSage Electronics, Inc. Product description: Using built-in medical expertise, this product organizes
billing and cost data into medical domains to analyze utilization patterns. This allows users to understand the financial aspects of care
delivery according to medical factors that truly drive costs. Diseases, patient history, and
the financial perspective combine to give users a big picture helpful for prediction of sickness and coverage.
Demo? No.
Evaluation: By grouping the cost of care into cost domains, users can better understand utilization and medical risk within the
population. This helps them to make better future business plans.
Email: info@CareSage.com
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