The Most Complete Business Intelligence Solution in Healthcare

Most healthcare business intelligence systems are built using a combination of software, relying on statistical packages, report writers, databases and import engines that must be extensively customized. These projects can take a few years and a few million dollars to build and bring into production. SmartCare® offers a different solution. In the words of one client, Thomas Klein, the former Director of Actuarial Services at Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield of New York and now an independent consultant, "SmartCare is 80% of SAS with none of the effort."

SmartCare® is a unique healthcare business intelligence system that combines a data warehouse with an analytical workstation. It is designed to save a great deal of time and money so that Healthcare organizations can extract important answers out of vast amounts of data, quickly and easily, without adding to the IT Department’s workload. It was specially conceived to be shared by the CFO and the Medical Director, offering a common platform to realize new synergies, and thus new organizational efficiencies.

The Problem Solving Solution

SmartCare® is the most complete business intelligence solution in healthcare. While other systems may emphasize functionality for payers or providers, SmartCare®’s unique architecture creates a radically different paradigm for reports. Rather than a set of standard reports with limited user-modified components (ex., date range), it presents a series of report templates on interactive report definition screens. On these screens users select from lists of fields to determine what will fill that template. The result is that rather than have a few dozen reports with preset fields, each report definition screen enables you to create thousands of reports. Add them all up and you could create a million custom reports in SmartCare. The report definition screens are designed so that it only takes a few seconds to build a report regardless of complexity.

Here are a few of the many things that SmartCare® can do:

The Technology Solution

The underlying technology of the system establishes a rock-solid foundation. Some of SmartCare’s tremendous technology advantages include:

• Full data warehouse with virtually limitless capacity
• Built-in ETL Engine reduces data load time by over 90%, from months to days
• Fully integrates Electronic Medical Records with Claims data
• Important statistical functions work with a mouse click
• Graphs with all charts, with instant graph customization
• Virtually limitless Ad-hoc query flexibility
• Drilldown from summary results, into individual episodes and then into the detailed transactions with a mouse click
• Unique data mart design increases analysis productivity by over 1,000% (yes, over one-thousand percent)—reduce the time to get answers from hours (or days) to seconds

Why it’s such a good investment

As one client put it, “SmartCare® is like having an entire research department in a box.” You don’t need to purchase an expensive data warehouse package and then spend over a year customizing it to match your various processing systems. You don’t need to purchase expensive statistical analysis software and hire the actuaries and programmers to operate it. Or, if you already have such personnel, give them SmartCare® and let them accomplish in a week what used to take them a month.

We believe that software should leverage an organization’s assets and provide a tangible return on investment. SmartCare® should save you more money in one year controlling resource utilization and identifying high risk patients than it cost to buy it.