NGS’ Decision Assist – Healthcare is an immediately deployable reporting and analytical solution for community hospitals and clinics that use the IBM System i (AS/400). It provides a Web portal, executive dashboards, pre-built reports, multi-dimensional models, and a scalable data warehouse model designed to support revenue, patient, and clinical care performance monitoring.
The solution, developed with NGS’ own NGS-IQ business intelligence application development tools, integrates with and enhances the presentation of DB2 for i5/OS data through the use of Adobe Flash, Web browsers, and Microsoft Office software.
Decision Assist – Healthcare dashboards include the following:
- Admissions by Day of Week and Patient Type
- Patient Visits and Charges by Physician, and Patient Type
- Revenue by Financial Class with Charges and Expected Reimbursements by Patient Type
- Charges by Financial Class
- Expected Revenue by Financial Class
- Patient Payments by Financial Class
- Insurance Payments by Financial Class
- Minimum, Maximum, and Average Length of Stay by Admitting Day of the Week, by Physician, by DRG, and Age of Patient
- Average Inpatient Stay Lengths by 30 Day Period, Date, and Week
Decision Assist – Healthcare also includes a wide range of pre-defined reports:
- Monthly Revenue by Financial Class
- Revenue by Primary Insurance Carrier
- Outpatient Revenue and Visits
- Revenue by Patient Type
- Revenue by Charge Number
- Charge Details by Patient
- Patient Charges Exceeding Entered Amount
- Top Charges by Service
- Length of Stay
- Patient Insurance Payments
- Length of Stay by Insurance Carrier
- Mortality Rate
- DRG by Group
- DRG Analysis
- Length of Stay by DRG Group
These reports are delivered in the form of Excel spreadsheets, multidimensional “OLAP” models, Adobe PDF, HTML, and other popular formats.
Decision Assist provides you with a long-term perspective on KPI's. Additional benefits include simplified query development for end users with an easier to understand database and a high performance query environment due to the pre-processing during data warehouse updates.
What’s the Relationship between Decision Assist – Healthcare and NGS-IQ?
NGS-IQ is the application development platform for Decision Assist – Healthcare. NGS-IQ makes it easy to customize Decision Assist – Healthcare to meet your requirements and to create original queries, reports, analytical models, and presentations.
The versatile NGS-IQ system satisfies the reporting and analysis needs of financial and clinical staff while maintaining data integrity, compliance, and security. Users of IBM Query/400 instantly appreciate the way NGS-IQ virtually eliminates the need to write multiple queries and generate work files to produce useful reports. Windows and Web users find the graphical presentation qualities in NGS-IQ enable them to see performance trends and exceptions quickly and customize reports without waiting for assistance from an IT specialist or consultant.
What is the NGS Training Program?
NGS offers a variety of training and consulting services to customers ranging from two-day beginning user classes to comprehensive certification programs. Most customers can become highly proficient in the use of Decision Assist – Healthcare and the underlying set of NGS-IQ software tools after attending just a few NGS training classes.
NGS offers a fully-integrated version of Decision Assist – Healthcare for users of Siemens Medical Solutions MedSeries4 software. To learn more about this special version of Decision Assist – Healthcare, go to www.ngsi.com//company/bi_medseries4.html.
NGS-IQ and Decision Assist are trademarks of New Generation Software, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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