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Information... Knowledge... there is a difference! |
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specialize in taking the millions of bits of data available in your organization's existing financial & clinical applications and turning it into information, information that
creates the knowledge you and your team will need to make fact-based, data-driven decisions to achieve breakthroughs in financial and quality performance.
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Empower your
organization with a strong competitive advantage by helping
you leverage the information that already exists in your core financial and clinical applications. |
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Ensure that your
organization achieves maximum profitability and responsive patient care. |
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Eliminate
intensive manual processes and give caregivers
more time for patients. |
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Migrate operational management reporting capabilities
from monthly to daily and provide decision support tools needed to
help you improve staff utilization,
productivity and patient throughput. |
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Help you
understand your core product lines, market
share, competitors, threats and
opportunities, and then help you exploit this
information to gain competitive
advantage. |
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Provide a complete, automated solution that extracts data from
your existing transactional
information system and make it available to your management
team at their desktop PC. |
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Assist you in developing an
entire Business Intelligence strategy, or simplify
your current data extraction and reporting processes. |
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Information/Knowledge
Systems are key enablers for operations improvement and
financial success. Management Decision Systems combines experience in operational analysis,
process redesign & benchmarking with a detailed knowledge of
financial and clinical information systems. This results in a focused and practical implementation of improved methods, efficient staffing,
& controlled costs.
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have designed & developed technologies such as the Lazarus
Data Pump, Reporter
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MAST
decision support system to gather, integrate and
consolidate data from mission critical applications to model
opportunities and support strategies for our clients. |
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where theses technologies have been employed include: |
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Pre-Merger Due Diligence
- Consolidation of financial & clinical data
to model merger of
several hospitals to determine cost/benefit (St.
Joseph Regional Medical Center South Bend, IN) |
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Hospital Operations & Service
Improvement -
Creation of Decision Support System
& Data Warehouse from daily transactions from CERNER LIS, SMS financial and
staffing schedules (Wyoming Valley Health Care System,
Inc. Wilkes-Barre, PA) |
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Medicaid Rehabilitation Option Planning
- Extraction of 3 fiscal
years of service encounters, paid claims & related utilization data
from HBOC HIS to create consumer & provider profiles of service utilization
& costs and perform financial analyses (Commission
on Mental Health Washington, DC)
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HMO Audit -
Extraction of all UB92 & 1500 transaction
level detail from several information systems to audit the
financial viability & utilization patterns of an HMO (UTMB
Health Care System, Inc. Houston, TX)
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Community Healthcare Planning
- Extraction of 3 fiscal
years of service encounters, paid claims and utilization data
from an IS to audit & model services (Allegheny
County (PA) behavioral healthcare system)
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Lazarus Data
Pump |
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Lazarus Data Pump was developed to integrate data on a
recurring basis from mission critical applications and external data
sources to a reporting warehouse. Using interface technology it processes data from:
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Financial & Clinical Applications |
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Administrative
Management Applications |
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External
Data Sources:
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CPT4, ICD9, GIS |
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Staffing Schedules |
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Benchmark Standards |
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Patient Surveys, Demographics, Census Tract |
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was designed to create and manage a data warehouse
as well as provide data feeds to Reporter and the MAST
decision support system or other reporting tools.
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Main
application screen of Lazarus Data Pump. |
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Reporter
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Main
application screen of Reporter reporting system. |
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MAST
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(Management Accountability, Staffing & Service
Tracker) is a state-of-the art decision support reporting
system that complements your clinical and financial information
systems. It was originally designed for clinical laboratories
to track the vast amounts of already-available data in divergent
information systems and produce reports necessary to be able to
provide efficient, cost-effective and high-quality service. MAST
provides management reporting for... |
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Productivity monitoring |
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Financial performance |
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Benchmarking |
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Service level monitoring |
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Management accountability |
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Utilization control |
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Main
application screen of MAST decision support system. |
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Additional information on the MAST
reporting system can be found at www.mandecsys.com/mastover2.html.
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Occurrence
Report Form (ORF) Tracker
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The ORF
Tracker is a client/server database
application designed to manage risk and report on laboratory
incidents as required by CLIA and other regulatory/accreditation
agencies. Our system is installed on a Windows 2003 server.
Each supervisor and pathologist is provided a "real-time" desktop
connection to the program. Laboratory Occurrence reports are
centrally entered and available immediately. Reports are
immediately available on-line to monitor current status, manage
follow-up, trending and analysis. The ORF Tracker
provides management reporting for... |
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Summary
Statistics Reports/Graphs |
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Occurrence
Status Tracking |
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Pre-Analytic/Analytic/Post-Analytic
Analysis |
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Severity
Indexing |
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Slice/Dice
by Location & Occurrence Type |
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Trigger
Severity Email Notification |
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Main
application screen of ORF Tracker. |
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Additional information on the ORF Tracker system can be found at
www.mandecsys.com/ORFTrack.html.
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