Healthcare Performance Management

Parson Consulting


Overview

The Parson Healthcare Performance Management (HPM) solution allows your organization to tie patient clinical data with administrative performance information. It provides a complete view of the health of the patient and the underlying cost associations of the practice.

HPM uses IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence, and Microsoft Windows Workflow, to provide the 360-degree transparency you need to increase efficiency, reach financial objectives, and improve clinical outcomes. It provides analysis, dashboards, and reporting of operational, financial, and clinical KPIs to support decision-making.

HPM specifically addresses the needs of healthcare providers, including integrated delivery systems, hospitals, ancillary care systems, independent practice associations (IPAs), and management services organizations (MSOs).

HPM modules include:

  • Strategic Planning Module:D evelop a detailed 10-year plan to support product and service-line decisions, location and access decisions, pricing, and more.
  • Financial Module: Monitor the financial health of your organization, improve budgeting and forecasting capabilities, and reduce revenue cycle time, analyze revenue and expenses, and perform financial benchmarking.
  • Operational Module: Improve workflow, staffing, and scheduling; increase efficiencies; reduce waste; measure patient satisfaction; and more.
  • Clinical Module: Improve patient safety, care team performance, disease management, and clinical outcomes—from the executive dashboard level to the patient level.
  • Reporting Module: Delivers financial, quality, regulatory, and accreditation reporting including pay-for-performance.

Benefits


  • Streamlines, automates, and integrates the strategic planning and budgeting process.
  • Enhances revenue and cash forecasting capabilities related to patients, health plans, pay-for-performance programs, investment decisions, and more.
  • Provides a dashboard view of your organization’s KPIs.
  • Improves clinical outcomes and disease management programs.
  • Leads to more intelligent staffing and scheduling.
  • Helps ensure the right quantities of equipment and supplies are in the right place at the right time.

Features


  • Comprehensive data model
  • Benchmarking capability
  • Performance planning model
  • Dashboard report package
  • Data integration wizard
  • Workflow and integration package with overall solution

Architecture


The HPM solution includes predefined, customizable data marts for functional subject areas of healthcare integrated delivery. Comprehensive planning and forecasting models provide high-level strategic planning as well as detailed clinical, financial, and operational planning that can be rolled into an enterprise-wide plan.

The Reporting and Analysis modules are built using IBM Cognos 8 reporting, analysis, and query. IBM Cognos 8 event management provides event-driven notification based on customized thresholds. Microsoft Windows Workflow provides the foundation for advanced automation and workflow that can be triggered from Cognos event management. Metrics-driven management utilizes IBM Cognos 8 scorecarding and includes a top-level executive dashboard.

HPM runs on Microsoft Windows Server 2003. It supports a broad range of relational and non-relational data sources, with the healthcare performance data warehouse on Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle RDBMS.

Availability

For more details, contact Parson Consulting, 1 Technology Drive Suite I-821, Irvine, CA 92618. Ph: 949-609-0123. Fax: 949-609-0128.

You can also find information on our website: www.parsonconsultingna.com

 
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