NGS’ Decision Assist™ – Healthcare is an immediately deployable reporting and analytical solution for community hospitals and clinics that use the IBM i (AS/400). It provides a Web portal, executive dashboards, pre-built reports, multidimensional 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 healthcare data through the use of Adobe® Flash, Web browsers, and Microsoft® Office software.
Decision Assist – Healthcare Dashboards
- 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 – Healthcare 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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