Physician Charge Capture & Compensation
Client: Southern Illinois Healthcare
Service: Physician Charge Capture & Physician Compensation
System: Meditech Client Server 5.6, Summit Scripting & Scheduling Technologies
Business Case
Southern Illinois, not having purchased the LSS Physician Modules, desired a way to capture physician charges for services rendered in the hospital and provide these physicians compensation accordingly.
Project
The Director of Finance, the Billing Lead, & John Sharpe of Comstock Software jointly designed and implemented reports along with automated distribution via email to Billing Team Analysts for revenue capture & physician compensation.
Results
Today, Southern Illinois captures revenue for physician services, and provides physicians compensation for services rendered.
Allscripts EPSi Makes Dollars & Cents
Client: Large Healthcare System in Colorado
Service: Meditech Data Extraction, & Data Transformation
System: Meditech Client Server 5.65, Summit Scripting & Scheduling Technologies
Business Case
Decision Support purchased EPSi to perform cost accounting & opportunity analysis to preserve and grow the company’s ability to serve Colorado residents with world class healthcare.
This system’s users would include the CEO, CFO, and service line executives responsible for sustaining the financial viability of the organization.
The challenge: Meditech & LSS data can be unwieldy in all of its complexity and require complex data extraction routines to move the data from source systems to the EPSi system.
Project
The Director of Decision Support, Business Office Executives, Business Intelligence Team & John Sharpe of Comstock Software jointly designed and implemented data extracts to populate the Allscripts EPSi Data Warehouse.
Results
The CEO, CFO & service line executives now use information from EPSi to select and grow areas of the business. This information supports the organization’s mission to provide world class healthcare to residents of Colorado.
Data Image Extraction for Patient Statements
Client: Lima Memorial Health System in Lima, Ohio
Service: Meditech Data Extraction
System: Meditech Magic 5.65
Business Case
Sandy the Director of Patient Financial Services selected Data Image to format, print & mail Patient Statements. When the real challenges with providing the Meditech Data Extract to Data Image became apparent; Sandy reached out to John Sharpe @ Comstock Software for assistance with Meditech Data Extraction.
Project
Sandy, Shane from Data Image and John designed and implemented a Meditech Data Extract to provide patients with statements of their account and billing activity.
Results
Using their new Meditech Data Extract, Lima Patient Financial Services successfully mails their patients financial statements on a scheduled and daily basis.
Materials Management & Accounts Payable Spend Analysis
Client: Med Assets Spend Analysis @ St. Joseph’s Health System in Bryan, Texas
Service: Meditech Data Extraction
System: Meditech Magic 5.65
Business Case
Bill Jester - Director of Data Management and Tony Romano - Vice President, Operational Improvement at MedAssets charged by their CIO with streamlining their data sets, approached John @ Comstock Software with a challenge. Develop standardized Med Assets data sets to be leveraged across multiple product lines for business units in the North Americas region.
Project
Bill Jester, Tony Romano from Med Assets successfully co-developed data extracts to be used in a unified data stream for multiple Med Assets product lines.
Results
Tony & Bill from Med Assets improved data quality, decreased product implementation & service delivery times using the data sets.
ClinDoc Audit Results in Better Patient Care Plans
Client: Hopkins County Memorial Hospital
Service: Clinical Documentation Audit, Meditech Reporting
System: Meditech Client Server 5.65
Business Case
Nursing Care Plans are the primary instrument used to communicate problems, goals and progress in a patient’s recovery process. Identifying and resolving out of date Care Plans for patients is a primary concern for the Chief Nursing Officer.
Project
The Chief Nursing Officer, the Charge Nurse, & John Sharpe of Comstock Software jointly designed and implemented a report to proactively identify out of date Patient Care Plans.
Result
Using their new Care Plan Audit Report, Charge Nurses now proactively identify and update Patient Care Plans as soon as they are out of date. Proactively addressing out of date Care Plans facilitates better patient care by communicating up to date problems, goals and progress to all of the patient’s care providers.
