Welcome to Vantage Point Healthcare Information Systems, Inc.
Vantage Point offers SmartCare^®, a complete Business Intelligence system including the data warehouse, ad hoc query, contract analysis, disease management and benchmarking in a single package.  It can be fully implemented in a few days rather than many months, and costs less than half that of comparable systems.  SmartCare can load electronic medical records with claims data and analyze them together.

We have created a new healthcare information 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.

What is an integrated data warehouse + analysis system?
Many healthcare organizations, both payors and providers, have undertaken the challenge of building a data warehouse. Almost all of them have found that it cost far more in both time and money than they expected. Usually it took over a year before they saw any results. Usually it cost them hundreds of thousands of dollars just to get those first results out of the system. Next, they had to pick an analysis tool able to work with the warehouse and then customize it to generate all of the reports they wanted.

So we at Vantage Point decided to build a data warehouse with a powerful analysis front end together in a single package. We worked out all of the data conversion and import problems. The data warehouse is predesigned to contain and interrelate membership, claims, pharmacy, medical record, and outcome data. We got the data conversion process down to a few days rather than a year. We got the installation time down to an hour. We made the analysis tools so effortless to use that anyone who can use a mouse will find it easy to run our many reports. It excels at ad hoc queries, and makes it so simple to create them that you’ll almost not need any training.

Finally, we priced it so low that you won’t believe it.

Why we built SmartCare®
We are data warehouse and data analysis professionals. We understand how to build sophisticated database analysis systems, having done so for some of the biggest corporations in the country. We’ve also specialized in healthcare data for over a decade. We understand the unusual relationships within this data. First, we figured out how to merge all of that data into a coherent model. Then we built an analytical workstation that lets you get the most out of all of it.

While SmartCare® is incredibly powerful, it’s incredibly easy to use. It runs on a Windows® PC, on your existing network and over the Internet. As a former nurse who uses SmartCare® said, “it’s easier to use than a spreadsheet.” Yet it does complex things like compute PMPMs and create risk pools and model carve-outs and analyze resource utilization. It “thinks” healthcare just like you do. We’ve tried very hard to make the computer invisible.

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 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.

We understand that rising costs are one of healthcare’s biggest problems.

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Vantage Point has a series of documents, in Adobe Acrobat PDF format, which answers many questions about SmartCare®. If you would like to download any of these documents, please vist the "Download" page.