MEDITECH
Executive
Support System
product brief
MEDITECH's Executive Support System (ESS) offers hospital executives and department managers from both multiple and single facility health care organizations a powerful management tool to gather and analyze information from throughout their health care networks. ESS produces user-defined reports instantaneously, enabling decision makers at all levels to view integrated financial, clinical, and statistical information from all departments, facilities, and corporations.
Highlights:
Executives and
managers benefit from:
• Summary and detail information from
throughout the organization
• Historically trended information
• Standard and individualized reports
• Comparative data and period analysis
capabilities.
Standard
Features
Network-Wide
Information
The Executive Support System collects and displays financial and
statistical information residing in MEDITECH's Health Care
Information System (HCIS). Screen displays or printouts may
include information from a single department or present
information from multiple departments throughout the health care
organization.
Financial,
Administrative, Clinical, and Patient Care Information
The information contained in ESS is updated automatically, and
functions in ESS search the HCIS to gather new statistical
information that may have been entered. ESS gathers and assembles
information from the following applications:
• Registration
• Case Mix Management
• Patient Care System
• Order Entry
• Laboratory
• Billing/Accounts Receivable
• General Ledger
• Accounts Payable
• Payroll/Personnel
• Materials Management
• Cost Accounting
• Staffing and Scheduling
• Pharmacy
• Physicians' Practice Management.
Historical
Information
Administrative, financial, and patient care information from the
last two years is automatically retrieved and loaded into the ESS
at the time of installation.
Supplemental
Information
Information not already resident on the MEDITECH system may be
entered and compared with existing data to assist in budgeting
and other decision-making analyses.
Available
to All Levels of Personnel
Facility administrators, department managers, and supervisors can
view and access information specific to their locations or
departments. For example, managers in patient care departments
can, with the proper security, view general ledger, materials
management, and payroll information for their departments without
waiting for printed reports. In addition, managers of departments
such as billing, payroll, laboratory, and purchasing can use ESS
to obtain financial and statistical data to assist in running
their departments.
Standard
View Fields and "Views"
ESS is installed with extensive lists of data fields for
executives and managers. These standard fields represent data
elements from the departmental applications frequently requested
by executives, managers, and administrators.
Standard views and reports are also available in each application from which ESS gathers and assembles data. Some applications have two standard views, since data is captured on a daily and a periodic basis (such as Admission Daily and Admission Period).
Standard
and Individualized Reports
ESS lists data fields from MEDITECH's HCIS in a "view"
format. Users can, based upon their security clearance, access
both standard and individualized reports.
Individualized
"Views"
Executives and managers have several options available for
creating their own customized views:
• User-defined fields
• Calculated fields
• Reporting of external data
• Utilizing standard fields.
Effortless,
Yet Powerful, Report Generator
ESS makes accessing and viewing information practically
effortless. Users simply identify the categories of information
they want on a particular view. ESS automatically displays the
data in tabular and graphic formats. Once in the view, the user
has several options for changing the display of data or the
breakdown of data.
Flexible
Data Analysis
ESS includes a number of features, which enable users to gather
and analyze information at various summary levels and in
different time periods. Depending upon the specific application,
data is captured on either a daily or period basis. Users have
the option of changing the time scale on a view to quarterly,
fiscal year, fiscal YTD, or a range.
Drill-Down
Capability
Executives and managers view increasingly specific information by
drilling down through multiple levels of detail. Point-and-
select operation and windows of choices instantly move users to
additional detail, saving valuable time and effort.
History
Option
View information is displayed in the time scale currently
associated with the view. Additionally, the net change and
percent change in data values over the time period are calculated
and displayed in tabular and graphic form to clarify trends.
Breakdown
Option
Detail about selected information is displayed. For example, the
number of admissions may be broken down by physician, location,
or service. Users drill down to detail based on how the data is
stored in the feeder applications.
Time
Slice Option
Information from one time period is compared to prior data in
another time period. Additionally, the net change and percent
change in data values between the two columns are calculated and
displayed for all the data fields on the view.
Selection
Option
Viewed data can be temporarily or permanently limited. This is
particularly useful to decision-makers who need or want to only
view information from certain areas of the organization.
Data
Display Options
ESS offers the user several options for data display:
• Ascending order
• Descending order
• Value
• Net change
• Name
• Percent change.
Security
Measures
ESS provides a number of security checks to verify, restrict, and
track users and to protect sensitive information, such as:
• Password-based security checks appear at several levels in
the system
• Audit trail reports link each ESS activity to a specific
user password
• "View only" access protects against accidental
altering or deletion of information
• Performance reports automatically detail compilation,
usage, and computer memory storage of the system for MIS
personnel
• Users are assigned to dictionaries so they can create
customized views and give access to proper users
• Users may be restricted to specific data fields
For more information about us, contact a MEDITECH Marketing Representative
MEDITECH
Medical Information Technology, Inc.
MEDITECH Circle
Westwood, MA 02090
781-821-3000
www.meditech.com