Microsoft Great Plains Implementation: Healthcare/Hospital example – overview
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By Andrew Karasev
Alba Spectrum Technologies
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Microsoft Great Plains
fits multiple services market niche and healthcare is not exemption. In the
case of Healthcare/Hospital there is usually healthcare patient history tracking
system in place and backoffice or accounting application should be integrated on
the ongoing basis with the above mentioned system plus often Hospital or
association is non-profit organization and non-for-profit accounting specific
should be taken into consideration.
- Integration.
Great Plains is MS SQL Server based application and SQL scripting/stored
procedures is the choice for ongoing integration. The second option is Great
Plains Integration Manager – it is end-user tool and it should be considered
if the integration volume is low or moderate (up to thousand transactions per
day). Usually you do integrate customer billing records and do billing from
Great Plains. Great Plains advanced reporting functionality will allow you to
control your cost and expenses.
- Financial
Reporting. FRx is the tool of
choice in the case of Microsoft Great Plains. Being healthcare organization
you can consolidate multiple companies (hospitals or clinics) and have all
standard and advanced financial reports: Income Statement, Cash Flow, Balance
Sheet. Reporting tree utilization in FRx allows you to select business units
and do performance comparison
- Compliance
Reporting. Microsoft Great
Plains, being SQL application allows you to deploy such tools as Crystal
Reports to create healthcare-specific reports for your clients, contractors,
state and federal regulation authorities. In Crystal Reports you can create
report with the data from Microsoft Great Plains and Patient tracking system.,
even if the last one if not SQL Server based. Crystal Report can work with
heterogeneous queries and stored procedures
- Patient Invoices
Lookup. If patient calls you
and questions the bill – you should have quick lookup from your CRM to Great
Plains invoices for this customer. Some Hospitals offer internet bills lookup
for their clients. This might become required feature in the following three
or five years. You can implement this web-lookups via web publishing from
Microsoft Great Plains database.
We encourage you to analyze your
alternatives. You can always appeal to our help, give us a call: 1-866-528-0577
or 1-630-961-5918,
help@albaspectrum.com
Andrew Karasev is Chief Technology Officer at
Alba Spectrum Technologies (
http://www.albaspectrum.com ), serving Microsoft Great Plains, CRM, Navision
to mid-size and large clients in California, Illinois, New York, Georgia,
Florida, Texas, Arizona, Washington, Minnesota, Ohio, Michigan