This module is required to allow retrieval of pertinent information to assess operational effectiveness. It should allow the investigation of physician utilization, revenue analysis, census comparison, FTE analysis and cost actual/budget comparative reports.
An Executive Information system is needed in order to offer Hospital executives and department managers a powerful management tool to gather and analyze information from throughout their health care network. Instantaneous information flow should enable decision makers at all levels to view integrated financial, clinical, and statistical information from all departments and facilities, in a consolidated manner.
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| Executive Information ( Decision Support System , DSS ) |
| | Description | This module is required to allow retrieval of pertinent information to assess operational effectiveness. It should allow the investigation of physician utilization, revenue analysis, census comparison, FTE analysis and cost actual/budget comparative reports.
An Executive Information system is needed in order to offer Hospital executives and department managers a powerful management tool to gather and analyze information from throughout their health care network. Instantaneous information flow should enable decision makers at all levels to view integrated financial, clinical, and statistical information from all departments and facilities, in a consolidated manner. |
| 1 | | Consolidated information to form basis for decision making | | 2 | | Summary and detail information from throughout the Hospital | | 3 | | Historically trended information | | 4 | | Standard and individual reports | | 5 | | Comparative data and period analysis capabilities | | 6 | | Collection and display of financial and statistical information | | 7 | | Information included from a single or multiple departments | | 8 | | Drill down viewing capability from high level summaries to detail | | 9 | | Easy to use Report Generator , in tabular and graphic formats | | 10 | | Ability to analyze and report all data across the modules in the Hospital | | 11 | | Ability to map organizational structure of the Hospital into report viewing and queries | | 12 | | Business process modeling/templates built-in capabilities |
| >>> Additional Information | | | | 26 | | Historical Information. Administrative, financial , and patient care information from the last two years is automatically retrieved and loaded into the module. | | 27 | | Comparison with existing data to assist in budgeting and other decision-making analysis |
| >>> Additional Information | | | | 28 | | Facility administrators , department managers, and supervisors can view and access information specific to their locations or department. | | 29 | | Encapsulated report to be generated to selected decision makers, on regular basis |
| 30 | | Ability to define standard fields representing data elements from the department applications frequently requested by executives, managers, and administrators. | | 31 | | Ability to create user customized views | | 32 | | Ability to access information through popular browsers | | 33 | | Ability to interface with in-house electronic mail system | | 34 | | Ability to gather and analyze information at various summary levels and in different time periods | | 35 | | Ability to change the time scale on a view to quarterly, fiscal year or a range. | | 36 | | Provide Drill-down capabilities | | 37 | | Provide Breakdown options ( ex: admission broken down by physician ) | | 38 | | View information is displayed in the time scale currently associated with the view. | | 39 | | Ability to view the net change and percent change in data values over the time period and display in tabular and graph form to clarify trends | | 40 | | Information from one time period is compared to prior data in another time period. | | 41 | | Ability to view the net change and percent change in data values between two time periods |
| 48 | | Graphical display of entities, business units, organizational units departments, employees | | 49 | | Graphical editor tool for structuring organizational connections | | 50 | | Hierarchical connections between organizational groups , external processes, sources and systems | | 51 | | Linkage of business procedures with organizational groups or individuals | | 52 | | Linkage of manual processes, external process/systems with groups or individuals |
| >>> Business Procedure Modeling | | | | 53 | | Display of required process steps that the system must execute to complete procedures | | 54 | | Tool to select a singular process workflow | | 55 | | Tool to select multiple processes, using ‘and, or ,exclusive or ‘ operands | | 56 | | Automatic referential integrity check for enforcing procedural controls and process rules |
| >>> Information Analysis and Reporting | | | | 57 | | Pre-configures executive summary report series | | 58 | | Ad hoc query and reporting | | 59 | | Report generation scheduling for report generation and distribution | | 60 | | User defined objectives/targets | | 61 | | User defined calculations | | 62 | | Dynamic addition of calculations during analysis | | 63 | | Monitor actual performance against objectives/targets | | 64 | | Exception reporting based on user defined criteria/filters | | 65 | | Reporting displays/windows | | 67 | | Multi-dimensional reporting matrix for changing dimensions | | 68 | | Add a database dimension with a crosstab that groups dimensions together | | 69 | | Save reporting version with user-defined formatting, filtering, ranking | | 70 | | User defined application linkages to report | | 71 | | Refresh data with user-defined frequencies to update information | | 72 | | Re-usable report components for creating new reports | | 73 | | Presentation-quality formatting tools |
| 74 | | Maintain basic data models | | 75 | | Inclusion of data and the inter-relationship details, regardless of data formats | | 76 | | Includes DDL ( data description/definition language) for importing, editing, printing and generating DBMS data structures | | 77 | | Common relational model for sharing data across multiple databases | | 78 | | Interface to system management or network configurator for automatic job execution |
| 79 | | Provide security checks to verify, restrict, and track users and protect sensitive information | | 83 | | Restrict users to specific data fields |
| 84 | | Graphical Inquiry Development | | 85 | | Interactive graphical display environment | | 86 | | Template based inquiries | | 87 | | Analysis design options for identifying exceptions/ opportunities | | 88 | | Ranking and filtering criteria | | 89 | | Analysis design coaching |
| >>> Work-Load Measurement | | | | 90 | | Ability to measure the volume of activity provided by a specific service in terms of a standardized unit of productive personnel time | | 91 | | Define unit of activity as : - a) Procedure b) Attendance Day c) Non-client care activity |
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